Head of Engineering at Kuro

tl;dr

• After 14 years in construction tech, Lea & Jonas are building the intelligence layer for the construction industry
• The largest construction enterprises in Europe — with a combined project volume of over €30bn annually — rely on Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions
• We are looking for a Founder’s Associate to join our team in Berlin and work directly with our CEO Lea across sales, marketing, hiring and operations. This is as close to being a founder as you can get without starting your own company.

About U

sLea and Jonas scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies - Capmo and alcemy - and saw firsthand the challenges holding the industry back. Now they're tackling the root cause: the 50% of construction work still lost to manual data handling

.Kuro is the the intelligent project data system for construction. We're reimagining how construction professionals get work done and make decisions by leveraging AI to augment back-office workflows and make core data accessible

.After one year on the market leading construction enterprises with a combined construction volume >30 billion annually use Kuro everyday to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions

.We are 16 people based in Berlin. You will join a group of ex-technical founders and builders that are ambitious and kind

.Learn more: Join Kuro - Berli

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The Opportuni

tyAs Head of Engineering, you'll work directly with Kuro’s founders on shaping and scaling the company’s technical foundation from the ground up. This is a player-coach role with a strong hands-on focus — at least initially — at the intersection of engineering, AI, infrastructure, and product strategy. You will own Kuro’s technical direction end-to-end, including infrastructure, architecture, AI systems, and engineering culture, while helping build and mentor a high-performing engineering tea

m.This role is ideal for someone who wants to build exceptional technology in an early-stage environment and have real influence on how the company evolves. You’ll shape how Kuro builds — technically and culturally — while staying close to the product, the code, and the most important strategic decision

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What You'll

doLead Technical Execution and Direct

• ionOwn the engineering roadmap: infrastructure choices, architecture evolution, code quality standards, and team proces
• sesMake the right calls at the intersection of speed and quality — you have the scar tissue to know when to move fast and when to slow d
• ownDrive the technical vision for Kuro's core platform: data lineage, artifact abstractions, document processing at scale, 3D model integrat

ionBuild and Innovate on Core Prod

• uctArchitect and implement complex platform capabilities: AI evaluation pipelines, scalable document ingestion, semantic search, module abstractions for forward-deployed mot
• ionWork hands-on with the team — this is not a pure management r
• oleMake foundational decisions on the AI and full-stack side of the tech st

ackBuild and Develop the T

• eamHire, mentor, and develop a small, senior engineering team (currently 5 enginee
• rs)Create a high-feedback, low-ego culture where engineers take ownership and g
• rowDefine hiring standards and engineering practices that scale with the comp

anyParticipate in Strategic Direct

• ionWork directly with the founders on product-engineering strat
• egyRepresent the engineering perspective in investor conversations and customer interactions when relev

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Past and current projects you would have been involve

• d inDesigned the core artifact abstraction layer for Kuro's document processing plat
• formArchitected a distributed, scalable document ingestion pipeline handling 300–3,000 files per project (PDFs, drawings, sc
• ans)Built and evaluated AI pipelines for automatic building component identifica
• tionLed the migration from Railway to AWS — infrastructure, RDS, S3, deploy
• mentDefined engineering team rituals: async-first planning, weekly shippable outcomes, domain owner
• shipIntegrated enterprise customer systems (ERP, procurement tools) into Kuro's plat

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Current Tech

StackWe are pragmatic and move quickly. You will have significant influence over where this stack

• goes.Web App: TypeS
• criptBackend: Fastify API (TS) + Python for ML ser
• vicesDatabase / Storage: Supabase (Postgres) / Turbopuffer / AWS S3 (centralizing to RDS + pgve
• ctor)Hosting: Railway → AWS (migration in prog
• ress)AI: Azure / OpenAI, Gemini, C
• ohereObservability, Evals & Tracking: Langfuse, Da

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Your p

rofileTechnical Track

• Record~10 years of B2B SaaS fullstack development experience, including enterprise co
• ntextsHave scaled systems and navigated multiple infrastructure iterations — you know what breaks at scale because you've s
• een itFluent in modern web application stacks; some affinity to data pipelines and AI/data s
• cienceDeep familiarity with the tradeoffs between premature optimization and technical debt — you've made the wrong call before and learned f

rom itLeadership Expe

• rienceSignificant leadership experience — you've managed at least one engineerin
• g teamIdeally: been part of scaling a B2B SaaS company from 0
• to 10Ex-founder or entrepreneurial background is a stron

g plusWho y

• ou areYou saw engineering excellence first-hand at a Tier A or B startup or scaleup — you know what great look
• s likeYou are in love with the startup phase; not interested in corporate c
• omfortYou care about solving problems and having impact, not about having opinions about programming lan
• guagesYou are still hungry and driven — not co
• astingYou handle the balance between pragmatism and doing it right extremel
• y wellYou are a great communicator and a pragmatic

leader
Lo

• gisticsFluent in English (written and
• spoken)Based in Berlin or willing to r
• elocateFull-time, onsite in Berli

n Mitte

Why KuroYou are joining Kuro at the moment it matters most. The product is live, customers are paying but their journey with Kuro is only beginning and you can shape it from the

get-go.This is your chance to join extremely early and help build one of Kuro core functions but also build an extremely rare profile on how to guide enterprise users through this platform shift. There is no playbook, the world is changing at an unprecedented speed and you can shape how one of the most critical industries around the globe wins in this

new era.
Th

• e processTalent Acquisition Call — Intro, logistics & fit
• (30 min)Impact Call — Deep dive with Lea & Get to know Product
• (30 min)Challenge — A time-boxed business challenge (
• ≤4 hours)Challenge review and deep dive (60
• minutes)On-site Day — Meet the team and lun

ch/dinner-Culture Interview

(30 Min)-Meet several tea

m members-Go for lunch with

• the tea