Lead Engineer, Quality and Delivery (f/m/d)

One in five children is neurodivergent. But whether they get help still depends on their parents' income.

Neurodivergent means: people with extra-ordinary brains. For example people on the spectrum or with ADHD, high sensitivity, giftedness, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dyslexia or Tourette's.

bloomnow is the ally of parents, educators and experts. We offer tools developed with experts, fitting exactly this mind and this situation. Plus knowledge, community and vetted professionals. Nobody is left alone anymore.

That is 3.5 million children in the German-speaking countries alone, and 1.65 billion neurodivergent people worldwide. Behind each of them are parents, educators and professionals who need support.

What this role is about

We build software fast. New features often take days, built with AI tools and soon by several people, not all of them engineers. Speed is not our problem. What we need is the person who turns that speed into a product families can rely on.

We are an AI-Enabled Company. Our AI agents work by fixed rules, automated checks run before every change, and every mistake becomes a new rule. This AI Development Lifecycle (AIDLC) already exists in its early form. You turn it into a system the whole team can rely on, from commit to store.

Where we are

• The product is here. More than 50 tools, knowledge, community and vetted professionals in one app for iOS and Android.
• We are live. Since 15 October, bloomnow has been available in the Apple and Google stores in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. [Current numbers with reference date to follow.]
• We decide with data. 36 in-depth interviews with parents, educators and professionals, ongoing surveys and weekly analysis of how families use the app.
• The tech team is in place. A CTO sets the technical direction, our founding engineer builds with them. You make sure that everything we build reaches people clean and reliable.
• Honest about funding. We are not funded yet. We are raising our pre-seed round right now and expect to be funded by February or March at the latest.
• We are not on our own. 17 professionals from clinical practice, counselling and neuroinclusion on our advisory board. EDISON 2026 in the Pioneers category, 2nd place at StartUp Live Vienna.

What you will do

• You own our AIDLC: how tasks are written for AI, which checks a change has to pass, who approves what, and how mistakes become new rules.
• You take over our CI/CD pipeline and make it fast, reliable and traceable, all the way to release in the App Store and Google Play.
• You build tests, automated checks and review gates, so that builders without an engineering background ship clean work too.
• You build security and data protection into the pipeline instead of checking them afterwards: access rules, secrets handling, dependencies and the permissions of our AI agents.
• You keep the architecture able to grow, instead of cleaning up after every fast feature.
• You say no when something is not ready yet, and show what it still needs.
• You build yourself, in the app and in the backend.

Who we are looking for

We don't count years. What matters more is that you want to own quality, especially when things have to move fast.

• You have shipped software to production and maintained it there, not just built it.
• You have set up or owned CI/CD pipelines and know what makes a release process reliable.
• You think in tests, quality gates and architecture, not just in features.
• You work with AI tools like Claude Code or Cursor yourself. You know where AI is reliable and where a human or a gate needs to look.
• You know how to protect sensitive data and spot the typical gaps in AI-generated code. Our data is about children and their families, some of it health data. Care here is not negotiable.
• Experience with mobile apps or releases through the App Store and Google Play helps. We work with Flutter. If you don't know it yet, you will learn it with us.
• You are comfortable working in English, our working language. German is a plus, not a must.

Ideally you have a personal connection to our topic, lived or supported.

What you get

• Equity in the company, a share in what you help build
• Room to shape things: you decide how software gets made here, by people and by AI
• Code that reaches real people from day one
• Hybrid or remote, a small team, short paths and real responsibility
• A product with purpose, built by a team that doesn't just address neurodiversity but lives it

Get in touch

Write to Roxane: rh@bloomnow.ai. A few lines on who you are and what you have built are enough. We are most curious about a pipeline or a process you are proud of. Emma, our assistant, will then set up a first call with you. More about us: www.bloomnow.app