VP of Engineering

At Callimacus, we're working to change how people interact on the web. For the past 30 years, the user experience as we know it has been anchored to a typographic paradigm — predefined navigation trees of pages, sections, and menus — established in the Nineties when the web was born.

As the way people get informed, entertained, and shop evolves, traditional websites and interfaces are losing relevance, and the tools available limit the creative evolution of digital experiences. Callimacus was born from the conviction that the whole web experience can and should be reinvented.

So we built the engine for a different kind of digital experience. Callimacus is a multi-agentic platform that plugs into a company's existing stack and reads multi-dimensional signals to understand what a visitor wants in the moment. Then, in milliseconds, our proprietary technology composes the entire interface around that intent, selecting the most relevant content and components as the person interacts.

Callimacus was founded in 2024 with the early backing of Brunello Cucinelli — one of our first investors, and now one of our customers. We launched in January 2026 to strong organic interest from enterprise customers, and recently raised from Salesforce Ventures the largest AI investment they have made in Italy, and one of their most significant in Europe.

We are a small, product-focused, founder‐led team. We work on hard problems that haven't been solved before — by us or anyone else — and the people who join now get to solve them. We move fast, with high agency and strong ownership.

About Callimacus
At Callimacus, we're working to change how people interact on the web. For the past 30 years, the user experience as we know it has been anchored to a typographic paradigm — predefined navigation trees of pages, sections, and menus — established in the Nineties when the web was born.

As the way people get informed, entertained, and shop evolves, traditional websites and interfaces are losing relevance, and the tools available limit the creative evolution of digital experiences. Callimacus was born from the conviction that the whole web experience can and should be reinvented.

So we built the engine for a different kind of digital experience. Callimacus is a multi-agentic platform that plugs into a company's existing stack and reads multi-dimensional signals to understand what a visitor wants in the moment. Then, in milliseconds, our proprietary technology composes the entire interface around that intent, selecting the most relevant content and components as the person interacts.

Callimacus was founded in 2024 with the early backing of Brunello Cucinelli — one of our first investors, and now one of our customers. We launched in January 2026 to strong organic interest from enterprise customers, and recently raised from Salesforce Ventures the largest AI investment they have made in Italy, and one of their most significant in Europe.

We are a small, product-focused, founder‐led team. We work on hard problems that haven't been solved before — by us or anyone else — and the people who join now get to solve them. We move fast, with high agency and strong ownership.

What you'll build
Callimacus is in production with demanding enterprise customers, the team is growing fast, and the founders are still deeply technical and deeply involved. Your job is not to take engineering away from them — it's to build the organization that lets a founder‐led product ship faster as it grows: the people, the practices, and the pace.

Own delivery. Turn a roadmap that gets redefined mid-week into a team that ships fast without burning out — process as light as possible, but no lighter.

Grow the team. Partner with our Founding Recruiter to hire exceptional engineers, then make them better: coaching, feedback, and growth paths.

Own how decisions get made. Architecture stays a shared, founder‐involved conversation — you own how technical decisions are proposed, reviewed, and shipped, so speed survives scale.

Build the engineering culture deliberately. Ownership, invention, and high standards — turned from founding‐team instinct into durable practice.

Stay technical. This is a small team. You'll still read code, review designs, and be in the room when production misbehaves.

What matters to us
These are the same for every role at Callimacus. We hire people who get the job done and care about the end result — the product, the experience, the people using it.

Ownership. You feel deeply responsible for your work and behave accordingly — from design through production and after. You don't wait to be told what to do; you see problems and act. "It's not my job" is not part of your mindset.

Invention. You light up at hard problems and are creative at finding so