Engineering Manager - Python

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 Head of Engineering to own technical direction and execution — and build out our team in Berlin.

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.
You will join a group of ex-technical founders and builders that are ambitious and kind.
About the role This is a player-coach role: ~80% hands-on engineering, ~20% leadership — at least to start. Own the engineering roadmap: infrastructure choices, architecture evolution, code quality standards, and team processes
Drive the technical vision for Kuro's core platform: data lineage, artifact abstractions, document processing at scale, 3D model integration
Work hands-on with the team — this is not a pure management role
Hire, mentor, and develop a small, senior engineering team (currently 5 engineers)
Define hiring standards and engineering practices that scale with the company
Work directly with the founders on product-engineering strategy
Represent the engineering perspective in investor conversations and customer interactions when relevant
Past and current projects you would have been involved in
Architected a distributed, scalable document ingestion pipeline handling 300–3,000 files per project (PDFs, drawings, scans)
Defined engineering team rituals: async-first planning, weekly shippable outcomes, domain ownership
Integrated enterprise customer systems (ERP, procurement tools) into Kuro's platform

Web App: TypeScript
Fastify API (TS) + Python for ML services
The product is live, customers are paying, and the hard platform challenges are just beginning — data lineage at scale, document understanding across thousands of files, AI modules that are actually reliable in enterprise contexts.
Fluent in modern web application stacks; some affinity to data pipelines and AI/data science
~ Significant leadership experience — you've managed at least one engineering team
You saw engineering excellence first-hand at a Tier A or B startup or scaleup — you know what great looks like
You are in love with the startup phase; Fluent in English (written and spoken)
Full-time, onsite in Berlin Mitte
Team, Values & Benefits
Our goal is to build a small, highly motivated team of smart, kind, and driven individuals — people who embrace challenges and challenge each other. We have 6 engineers today, several with founder or CTO-level backgrounds.
Take-home Challenge — A hands-on coding challenge that reflects real problems we solve (4-5 hours)