Strategy & Ops Engineer
Lully
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Madrid • Spain
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About the role
- Identify manual, repetitive, and error-prone operational workflows across the company.
- Design and build internal tools, automations, and lightweight services to replace manual processes.
- Integrate systems across finance, sales, procurement, legal, and customer support.
- Write production-quality scripts, services, or automations (APIs, cron jobs, data pipelines, internal dashboards).
- Own operational systems from design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Analyze operational data to prioritize high-leverage improvements and measure impact.
- Reduce dependency on administrative headcount through automation and system design.
- Improve go-to-market operations by building better tooling between sales, finance, and legal.
- Support contract management and procurement through structured, automated workflows.
- Ensure data accuracy, reliability, and observability across operational systems.
- Execute ambiguous, high-impact operational projects with minimal guidance.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort shipping real systems.
- Experience building automations or internal tools using Python, SQL, APIs, and/or scripting languages.
- Ability to reason about systems, edge cases, failure modes, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong business intuition—understanding how operational systems affect cost, speed, and scale.
- Extreme ownership: you find problems, design solutions, and ship without being asked.
- High agency, urgency, and comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Clear written and verbal communication.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at a high-growth AI startup, backed by top investors.
- Rapidly growing and backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, and Base10.
- Ownership & Autonomy - Take full ownership of projects and ship fast.
- Work With the Best - Join a world-class team of engineers and builders.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLAPIsscripting languagesdata pipelinesinternal dashboardsautomationsystem designproduction-quality scriptsoperational workflows
Soft Skills
strong software engineering fundamentalsbusiness intuitionextreme ownershiphigh agencyurgencycomfort operating in ambiguityclear written communicationclear verbal communication