About Parloa

Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager at Parloa, you will be entrusted with one of the most critical missions:

• Building and leading a high-talent, high-performance team of engineers.
• Ensuring that the team delivers enterprise-grade, resilient, and innovative AI solutions that customers love.
• Raising the bar on technical excellence, cultural leadership, and operational discipline.
  
  

You are both a builder and a leader. You dive deep into technical challenges, but your true leverage comes from how you develop engineers, scale teams, and drive alignment with Parloa’s strategic goals. You balance autonomy with accountability, empowering your teams while ensuring they deliver measurable customer and business impact.

Areas of ownership:

• Build and scale world-class teams: Hire, mentor, and elevate exceptional engineers. Create a culture of ownership, bias for action, and continuous improvement.
• Drive outcomes, not just output: Ensure every project directly contributes to Parloa’s strategic goals and delivers measurable customer value.
• Raise the technical bar: Partner with Staff and Principal Engineers to drive architectural excellence, reliability, and pragmatic perfectionism—design for tomorrow, build for today.
• Foster fearless culture: Enable fast, decentralized decision-making, encourage experimentation, and build trust by supporting your team in both successes and failures.
• Lead with alignment and clarity: Translate company strategy into clear objectives and measurable outcomes for your team.
• Ensure operational excellence: Instill high standards in security, availability, quality, and performance, making resilience and scale-by-design the default.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product, Design, and Business leaders to ensure technical execution and product vision are tightly aligned.

Who you are:

• A proven engineering leader (8–12+ years in software engineering, 3–5+ years in people leadership) with a track record of delivering complex, enterprise-grade systems at scale.
• A talent magnet: you know how to attract, develop, and retain world-class engineers, raising the bar with every hire.
• A strategic operator who can both set vision and dive deep into technical or operational details when needed.
• A culture builder: you model integrity, ownership, customer obsession, and high standards, inspiring others to do the same.
• Fearless and pragmatic: you balance ambition with execution, turning bold visions into reality through iteration and disciplined delivery.
• Skilled in scaling organizations: you know how to build systems, not bureaucracy, to ensure sustainable speed and impact.

Our Engineering Values

At Parloa, we hire, promote, and evaluate based on cultural and technical excellence. You’ll thrive here if you:

• Earn Trust – act with transparency and reliability.
• Obsess Over Customers – always start with the customer problem.
• Think Big – set bold goals and pursue them fearlessly.
• Have Integrity – do the right thing, especially when it’s hard.
• Disagree & Commit – debate with candor, align fast, and deliver.
• Own It – take full responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
• Dive Deep – master the details without losing sight of the big picture.
• Bias for Action – move fast, decide quickly, iterate fearlessly.
• Deliver Value – measure success by customer and business impact.
• Insist on the Highest Standards – raise the bar continuously.
• Go the Extra Mile – make the impossible possible.
• Hire & Elevate the Best – raise the bar with every hire.

Our recruiting process:

Recruiter video call → Peer Interview → 360° Technical Interview Loop → Bar Raiser Interview

Why Parloa?

We’re at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn’t just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We’re building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren’t just support tickets; they’re defining experiences. We’re here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale—and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments—this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn’t a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that’s evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We’ve grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we’ve kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we’re scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.

About Parloa

Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like Booking.com, HealthEquity, Allianz, SAP, BarmeniaGothaer, and TUI already deploying Parloa at scale.

About the role:

Join us in reimagining customer experience with Agentic AI. As a Staff or Principal Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping Parloa’s engineering strategy and architecture while staying close to the code. This role is about building resilient, enterprise-grade systems that can scale globally and helping us set the benchmark for engineering excellence in Europe and beyond.

Areas of ownership:

• Deliver business value by writing code every day.
• Define and drive technical strategy across multiple domains and org-wide initiatives.
• Lead cross-team architecture and ensure solutions scale globally for enterprise adoption.
• Balance short-term velocity with long-term resilience, making smart trade-offs on complexity, cost, and scalability.
• Remain hands-on - whether writing foundational code, leading design reviews, or refactoring key systems.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, ensuring engineering capacity matches market and customer demands.
• Set cultural standards for fearless iteration, bias for action, and pragmatic perfectionism—design for tomorrow, build for today.

OUR TECH STACK:

TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Azure, Kafka, NATS 

Who you are:

• A seasoned technical leader (typically 12–15+ years) with a track record of org-level or industry-level impact.
• Deeply experienced in enterprise-scale systems and multi-team architecture leadership.
• Equally comfortable flying high (strategic vision) and diving deep (technical details).
• Thrives in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with a strong sense of urgency.
• Embodies Parloa’s ambition: to build Europe’s leading engineering culture and a world-class AI platform.
• Motivated by making the impossible possible and building something iconic.

Our engineering values:

At Parloa, we hire, promote, and evaluate based on cultural and technical excellence. You’ll thrive here if you:

• Earn Trust – act with transparency and reliability.
• Obsess Over Customers – always start with the customer problem.
• Think Big – set bold goals and pursue them fearlessly.
• Have Integrity – do the right thing, especially when it’s hard.
• Disagree & Commit – debate with candor, align fast, and deliver.
• Own It – take full responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
• Dive Deep – master the details without losing sight of the big picture.
• Bias for Action – move fast, decide quickly, iterate fearlessly.
• Deliver Value – measure success by customer and business impact.
• Insist on the Highest Standards – raise the bar continuously.
• Go the Extra Mile – make the impossible possible.
• Hire & Elevate the Best – raise the bar with every hire

Our recruiting process:

Recruiter Call → Technical Peer Interview → 360° Tech Interview Loop → Bar Raiser

Why Parloa?

We’re at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn’t just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We’re building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren’t just support tickets; they’re defining experiences. We’re here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale—and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments—this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn’t a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that’s evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We’ve grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we’ve kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we’re scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.

About Parloa

Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience, one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like IKEA and Booking.com already deploying Parloa at scale. 

About the role:

As a Principal Applied Scientist at Parloa, you will define and drive our applied AI strategy across AI agents and Generative AI.

This is a highly hands-on and high-impact role at the intersection of research and production. You will explore, validate, and scale approaches that directly shape our product, from model evaluation and routing to agent behavior, memory, and context engineering, while defining how these systems should be measured, benchmarked, and improved across the industry.

Beyond execution, you will act as a technical leader: identifying opportunities, setting direction, and building the foundations of applied science at Parloa.

Areas of ownership:

• Define and lead applied AI initiatives across agent systems, LLM evaluation, and model optimization
• Own ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end: from framing and experimentation to production impact
• Design and implement evaluation & benchmarking frameworks, leveraging and challenging industry standards — and where needed, defining new ones
• Drive innovation in agentic systems, including topics like routing, memory, and context engineering
• Prototype and validate new approaches (e.g., model combinations, fine-tuning strategies, or open-weight models)
• Translate research into production-ready solutions, working closely with engineering teams
• Act as a technical authority and multiplier, mentoring others and shaping best practices
• Establish and lead the Applied Science guild, fostering knowledge sharing and raising the bar across teams
• Influence product and technical strategy, identifying where applied science can unlock the most value

Who you are:

• 12+ years of experience in Applied Machine Learning, Applied Science, or a related field, with a proven track record of delivering ML/AI systems in production
• Experience with agent-based systems or multi-step LLM workflows
• Strong recent experience working with LLMs and Generative AI systems, ideally in production environments
• Demonstrated ability to own and drive ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end—from problem framing to measurable impact
• Deep understanding of evaluation methodologies, benchmarking, and model performance analysis, including human-in-the-loop approaches
• Hands-on technical skills, with the ability to prototype, experiment, and ship solutions in collaboration with engineering teams
• Experience working on production systems, balancing speed, quality, and scalability
• Proven technical leadership and influence, with experience shaping direction, mentoring others, or driving cross-team initiatives
• Ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels, connecting long-term vision with day-to-day decisions
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Evidence of broader impact (e.g., published work, open-source contributions, internal initiatives, or industry influence) is a plus

We know that great candidates don’t always meet every single requirement. If you’re excited about this role and believe you could make an impact, we encourage you to apply, even if your experience doesn’t perfectly match every qualification.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with model routing, fine-tuning, or open-weight models
• Background in human-in-the-loop evaluation or annotation systems
• Contributions to public research, blogs, or open-source projects

Our recruiting process:

Talent Acquisition → Technical Peer Interview → 360° Technical Interview Loop → Bar Raiser

Why Parloa?

We’re at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn’t just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We’re building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren’t just support tickets; they’re defining experiences. We’re here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale—and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments—this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn’t a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that’s evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We’ve grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we’ve kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we’re scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.

About Parloa

Parloa’s mission is to make every customer conversation feel effortless for both customers and the companies serving them. As agentic AI accelerates, Parloans are shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience — one where customer support is no longer transactions, but meaningful exchanges. It is not just a vision; Parloa has powered over ONE BILLION interactions between global enterprise brands and their customers, with companies like IKEA and Booking.com already deploying Parloa at scale.

About the role:

Parloa is building the AI platform that enterprises trust with their most important conversations. That trust starts with security — and we need someone to own it entirely.

As Director of Security, you won't just manage a team. You'll shape how a fast-scaling AI company thinks about security from the ground up: building the strategy, the culture, and the systems that protect our platform, our customers, and the data they entrust to us. You'll lead our SecOps team within Tech Platform, partner across IS&T and Internal IT, and be the person our customers look to when they need confidence that Parloa takes security as seriously as they do.

This is a builder role. If you want to define what security looks like at an AI-native company — not inherit someone else's playbook — this is it.

Areas of ownership:

• Define and execute the product and platform security strategy — building the programs, tooling, and practices that scale with a fast-growing AI platform.
• Lead and grow the security team — hiring exceptional talent, developing senior leaders, and fostering a culture where security is every engineer's responsibility.
• Own application security across the SDLC — embedding secure coding practices, SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, threat modeling, and architectural security reviews into engineering workflows, enabling velocity without compromising safety.
• Design and implement security architectures for cloud-native applications, Kubernetes workloads, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and run the detection and response program — developing threat detection capabilities, tuning alerting and telemetry, and leading incident investigations, containment, and postmortems with technical rigor.
• Drive cloud security posture across our AWS/GCP infrastructure, covering identity and access, network segmentation, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code security.
• Be Parloa's product security voice in customer engagements — fielding security questionnaires, supporting enterprise due diligence, and translating technical posture into customer confidence.
• Advance AI-specific security practices — securing LLM pipelines, model interactions, prompt injection surfaces, and data handling across the platform.
• Collaborate with IS&T on shared boundaries — coordinating on incident escalation, identity systems, and compliance requirements where product and corporate security intersect, without duplicating ownership.
• Establish security metrics that matter — proving that product security posture is measurably improving, not just maintained.

Who you are:

• 12+ years in security, with at least 5 years leading security teams, ideally in product or application security at a SaaS or platform company.
• Deep hands-on experience securing cloud-native, containerized environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes) — you can still roll up your sleeves when it matters.
• Strong application security background — you understand secure architecture, common vulnerability classes, and how to shift security left without slowing engineering down.
• Proven detection & response expertise — you've built or significantly improved SOC/detection capabilities and led incident response in production environments.
• Effective communicator across audiences — you can translate product security risk into business terms for executives and customers, and dive into technical detail with engineers.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) as they relate to product security controls — you've contributed to audits and customer security reviews, even if GRC ownership sits elsewhere.
• Genuine curiosity about AI security — experience securing LLM-based systems is a strong plus, but a sharp instinct for emerging risk is what counts.

Our recruiting process:

Recruiter video call → Technical Peer Interview → Expert interview(s) → Bar Raiser

Why Parloa?

We’re at the beginning of a new era in customer experience, one where AI doesn’t just respond, but understands, reasons, and takes action. We’re building agentic AI that enterprises trust with their most important customer moments: complex questions, high volumes, real stakes. When millions of people reach out to a brand, those interactions aren’t just support tickets; they’re defining experiences. We’re here to raise the standard: making every conversation seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. If you care about shaping how businesses and customers connect at scale—and want your work to matter in real, everyday moments—this is where you do it.

At Parloa, ownership isn’t a buzzword; it means being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks. We operate in a category that’s evolving fast, where the bar is high, and the problems are complex. We hire people who think in solutions, communicate with clarity, and follow through. People who are comfortable making decisions, taking responsibility, and raising the standard for themselves and those around them.

We’ve grown beyond the earliest startup phase, but we’ve kept the intensity: fast execution, direct feedback, and a strong expectation to contribute meaningfully from day one.

Backed by leading global investors like General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and Altimeter Capital, we’re scaling with a clear ambition: to become the global category leader in enterprise-grade conversational AI.