Director of Engineering / CTO

This role is part of our Prerender team, one of our largest brands at saas.group.

For nearly a decade, Prerender has empowered marketers to create dynamic, complex sites at scale, making their JavaScript websites easily indexable by search engines. We eliminate indexing and crawling limitations, allowing our customers to gain the upper hand on HTML sites and rank higher on SERPs. More than 75,000 businesses around the globe trust Prerender to serve more than 2.7 billion web pages to crawlers to improve organic search ranking.

Profile Overview

As the Director of Engineering / CTO, you will lead and grow our engineering team, defining technical strategy and ensuring the successful delivery of our product suite. This role requires a hands-on leader with deep technical expertise, solid AI flueny, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of leading engineering teams at a SaaS company. You have experience managing the day-to-day, driving innovation, and collaborating with stakeholders to align technical initiatives with business goals.

Your responsibilities

Technical leadership and strategy:

• Define and execute the engineering vision, ensuring alignment with the company’s product and business objectives.
• Oversee the architecture and development of a scalable, high-performing, and secure AI discoverability platform.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and technical excellence.
• Ensure high standards of software quality, including performance, security and reliability.

Team Management and Growth:

• Manage and mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, speed, performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Establish best practices for hiring, onboarding and professional development.
• Promote diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization.

Execution and Delivery:

• Drive the development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring timely and high-quality releases.
• Ensure operational excellence by implementing DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring systems.
• Monitor KPIs and engineering metrics to track progress, identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows.
• Building the engineering budget once a year, ensuring constant improvement with a strong focus on cost optimisation.
• The role is expected to be approximately 80% focused on leadership and strategic oversight, with around 20% dedicated to hands-on coding and technical contribution when needed.

Cross-functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:

• Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams to ensure technical alignment with customer needs.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Advocate for engineering initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.

What You bring to the table

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years of experience in a leadership role at a SaaS company.
• Proven experience managing, scaling, mentoring and coaching engineering teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS company.
• Strong technical background in modern web technologies, Artificial Intelligence, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience building and maintaining scalable, high-performance SEO or search-related products is a plus.
• Deep understanding of software development best practices, CI/CD, DevOps and security principles.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and stakeholders.

What’s in it for You

• Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
• Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of independence to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
• Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
• Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
• Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
• Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
• Learning Budget: We want you to grow your skills so we provide you with a generous budget to use for classes, conferences, books and other learning resources.

Prerender is part of saas.group, and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.

We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.

Sounds like something you’re up for? Feel free to apply even if you don’t check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!

What is saas.group?

Think of us as the driving force behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 400 colleagues spanning 50+ countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 25 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.

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