YGO.ai

YGO.ai is a VC-funded AI tourism platform. 
This is a hands-on senior backend role for someone who uses AI to ship fast and cares about the product, not just the code.

This is not a traditional coding role. 
You'll use Claude Code and other AI tools to multiply your output, always thinking about how the feature you're building helps the user. 
We have no QA team, so you own the quality of what you ship: everything you deliver has to work.
 

What you'll do

• Own features end to end, from spec to deployment to fixing bugs
• Use Claude Code to generate Golang backend code, then review the output for quality and architectural fit
• Fix bugs to learn the codebase, then build new features quickly
• Make fast decisions on what to build, buy or generate with AI
• Talk to customers when they report issues and ship fixes the same day
   

At Lead level, on top of the above

• Be the spokesperson for your pod, internally with product, design and leadership, and externally with clients
• Coordinate work across the pod: break initiatives down, sequence them, surface blockers

• Represent your pod in product planning and bring a strong product point of view to scoping and trade-offs

   

This is not a people-management role. 
No one-to-ones, no performance reviews, no career coaching. 
The coordination work sits on top of your engineering, not instead of it and most of your week is still spent building.
 

Our stack
Go monorepo (no framework, 3+ services), PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker Compose mirroring production, Jaeger tracing, BetterStack for logging and alerting, Redis Asynq queue. 

Claude Code is mandatory.

You must have

• An ownership mentality and a strive for simple, high-quality solutions
• Strong Golang experience: you'll review AI-generated Go and must understand how it works
• Proven experience using Claude Code, with specific examples
• A product mindset: you care why we're building something
• Excellent spoken English and a good connection for daily video calls
• Availability full-time, in European or African time zones (±3 hours from CET)
• Willingness to do occasional on-call
   

Required at Lead level

• Multi-year experience leading a pod, squad or similar unit (a hard must)
• Comfort facilitating a pod without formal authority
• Willingness to be the external face of your pod in client meetings

Don't apply if

• You've never used Claude Code or similar AI coding tools
• You're a perfectionist who loves to code for its own sake
• You need detailed specs before starting
• You see AI as a threat rather than leverage
• You're outside European or African time zones
• You want a people-management role or to lead in name only without being hands-on

YGO.ai is a VC-funded AI tourism platform. We're looking for a Senior Technical Product Partner to support our small product engineering pods across our AI travel assistant, content enrichment system and partner integrations.

This is a supportive senior product role, not a head of product or a pod lead. You'll partner with two to three engineering pods, each of which has its own lead, on market, B2B client, UX and commercial product work. You need to be technically experienced enough to discuss prompts, evals, model behaviour and architecture with engineers as peers, and willing to build little things on your own.

What you'll do

• Sit alongside two to three pods as their senior product partner, advising on quality, roadmap and behaviour while the pod leads own delivery
• Run market and competitor analysis across AI travel, AI assistants and supplier platforms, and feed it into roadmap and pricing
• Own the commercial and pricing input on client deals, working with the founders so contracts and scope reflect what we actually build
• Lead UX research and design oversight across products, raising the bar on internal tooling and customer-facing interfaces
• Review AI assistant prompts and interactions regularly, working with engineers on evals and quality benchmarks
• Build dashboards and reporting that turn AI performance into a story stakeholders can read

• Join client and supplier calls when product, pricing or commercial discussions are on the table

   

Our stack
An AI travel assistant and a content enrichment system on a Go monorepo (3+ services), PostgreSQL, Redis, PaaS-managed containers, Jaeger tracing, BetterStack. Claude Code is used across the team.

You must have

• An engineering background built through hands-on experience
• Production development experience within the last 5 years, ideally with Claude Code or an equivalent agentic tool in the last 12 months
• 3+ years co-leading or leading product at an enterprise B2B or SaaS company, with both commercial and product responsibility
• A path from engineer into product, not a career project or scrum role
• Hands-on experience with AI products in production: prompts, evals, harnesses, hallucination handling, model selection
• Strong technical depth: you can read code, follow an architecture diagram and push back on engineers without overriding them
• Experience with internal admin tooling and B2B interfaces, not only consumer products
• Excellent written and spoken English

• Availability full-time within European or African time zones (±3 hours from CET)

   

Nice to have
Travel industry experience, German, past work on AI assistants or recommender systems, and experience setting up eval frameworks and quality dashboards from scratch.

Probably not the right role if

• Your background is mainly project management, Scrum or engineering management
• You've never worked on a product that uses LLMs in production
• You've never owned commercial or pricing responsibility
• You expect to lead a pod or have engineers report to you
• You expect detailed specs handed to you before you start
• You're outside European or African time zones