Shuttle is the cloud infrastructure platform for developers building with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. We make it simple to ship reliable and scalable backends, so developers can focus on creating great products.

Over 20,000 developers use Shuttle to build and deploy Rust backends in minutes, and we’re now bringing the same zero-config experience to every developer. As AI tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate coding, infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck - Shuttle removes it.

Our Mission 🎯

At Shuttle, we’re on a mission to revolutionise developer experience for building web apps. Everything we do is about crafting an exceptionally simple, satisfying and effective way to do cloud development. We are open source community-driven and loved by thousands of engineers. Our vision: the ultimate platform to supercharge developers’ productivity.

Working With Us 😎

We’re a growth mindset company. We’re honest, open-minded, driven, and ambitious and we are only looking for people who share these qualities with us. Read more about our values here

Perks 🎁

• Remote-friendly, flexible working hours and workdays
• Flexible holidays and paid time off
• Mental and physical health stipend
• Educational and self-development budget
• Support for attending and presenting at relevant conferences
• Health insurance
• Awesome work-from-home setup & equipment
• Regular company off-sites
• Weekly remote-friendly socials (games and more)

Job Description

We’re hiring a Head of Engineering at Shuttle, to lead the development of our AI-native backend platform, drive engineering velocity, and scale our cloud infrastructure for a fast-growing developer base.

Who We Are Looking For

A hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in software engineering and cloud infrastructure, who thrives in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

• Own and evolve Shuttle’s AI-native backend platform architecture, ensuring it scales with our growing developer base
• Lead the engineering teams in terms of best practices, high-level technical decisions, helps bring velocity to the level we want
• Champion AI tools for engineering - drive adoption of cutting-edge tools and practices to elevate internal devex and velocity
• Act as a glue between different technical teams and ensure things progress with coherence
• Build and mentor high-performing remote teams with a "ship fast" culture, hire and coach new engineers
• Actively contribute to codebase - both writing code and reviewing it
• Champion our values of simplicity, ease, and joy in development across all technical initiatives
• Work closely with founders to distill product vision and specs into technical plans, ensure the plans get executed efficiently and effectively

Must Haves

This role is for you if you have led large-scale projects on AWS/Azure/GCP for 5+ years

• AI power user / very excited about AI in dev workflows.
• Strong expertise in one of Python, Go or Rust.
• Has used Kubernetes in at least one production system at scale.
• Able to (at least) read Rust code and support an existing production system.
• Software engineer at heart who is not afraid of looking at a diverse stack of technologies.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, with having had a major contribution to at least 2 large scale production systems.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership mentality.
• Experience scaling engineering teams.
• Strong leadership skills/experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience in leading remote teams and driving early-stage startup growth as a founder or senior leader
• Background in working at dev tools companies
• Track record of thought leadership in the developer tools space
• Significant open-source contributions and community involvement
• Background in developer experience optimisation