Head of Engineering

🕒 May 25

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Shuru

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Enterprise

Shuru is a product, AI, and technology consulting firm that partners with businesses to deliver strategic consulting, full-cycle product and custom software development, and curated engineering team extension. Their AI-native engineering teams build scalable AI applications, data engineering and analytics, cloud/DevOps, and API integrations to modernize systems and accelerate product delivery. Shuru operates globally with a remote-first model and emphasizes high ownership, design thinking, and measurable outcomes for enterprise and startup clients.

📋 Description

• Build and continuously improve products serving both external users and internal teams, ensuring strong user experience, scalability, and measurable business impact. • Set clear technology direction and align engineering and data roadmaps with company strategy and business priorities. • Oversee system architecture and cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency as the company grows. • Guide key technology decisions across platform architecture, cloud providers, and engineering practices with sufficient hands-on depth to earn engineering team trust. • Leverage data to inform product strategy, operational improvements, and executive decision-making. • Strengthen analytics capabilities to create visibility across business and operational metrics. • Ensure strong security, privacy, and compliance practices, especially in environments handling sensitive personal and health-related data. • Implement data protection, access governance, and audit frameworks aligned with applicable regulatory requirements. • Develop and scale high-performing teams across engineering and data functions. • Hire, coach, and support senior managers and technical leads to build a strong leadership layer beneath you. • Establish clear operating rhythms, performance frameworks, and technical standards. • Drive alignment between technology, operations, finance, and business teams. • Translate complex technical topics into clear strategic decisions for leadership stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• 8 or more years of experience working in fast-growing technology startups or scale-up environments. • Demonstrated experience leading engineering and/or data teams through senior managers or technical leads, not just individual contributors. • Proven ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels, translating business goals into platform and technology outcomes. • Strong product judgment combined with sufficient technical depth to guide architecture and platform decisions. • Hands-on familiarity with scalable, cloud-native systems and modern data platforms. • Experience working in regulated or data-sensitive environments (health, insurance, fintech, or similar) is a strong plus. • Excellent communication and stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to drive clarity in ambiguous, fast-moving situations. • A strong ownership mindset and the confidence to make high-impact decisions with incomplete information. • Comfort with periodic travel within Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, for on-site collaboration with the client team (approximately once a month).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package. • Work with experienced product and engineering leaders. • Flexible and remote-friendly work culture. • Opportunities for learning, mentorship, and career growth. • A chance to make a real impact across diverse, innovative projects.