saas.group - Head of Engineering
Requirements
• SaaS Leadership: Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a high-scale production environment, with a focus on efficient team structures and operational excellence. • SaaS Leadership: • Technical Credibility: You possess high technical credibility across modern stacks (ideally PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, and cloud infrastructure) and feel at home discussing architecture with senior engineers. • Technical Credibility: • Product-First Mindset: You prioritize engineering efforts based on customer value and business impact rather than technical elegance for its own sake. • Product-First Mindset: • Change Management: You are skilled at building alignment during transitions, leading teams through change and resistance to a new rhythm and velocity. • Change Management: • Enabler Mentality: You pride yourself on empowering experts to take full ownership rather than being the sole decision-maker. You don’t want to be the bottleneck. • Enabler Mentality: • AI Affinity: A forward-thinking approach to using LLMs and AI agents as a core lever for both product features and internal productivity. • AI Affinity: • Domain understanding: Domain understanding of SEO-related web technologies (websites, crawling, indexing, content analysis) is a strong plus. • Domain understanding: • Communication: Fluent English is a must; German is a strong advantage given the brand’s roots. • Communication:
Responsibilities
• Organizational Transformation: Guide the evolution of our collaboration model from functional roles toward cross-functional efficiency. You will bridge the gaps between Product, Backend, and Frontend to reduce dependencies and empower squads to deliver end-to-end value. • Organizational Transformation: • Technical Vision: Co-create the technical vision & roadmap with your Tech Leads, balancing "tech debt" reduction with feature delivery. • Technical Vision: • AI-Native Evolution: Spearhead the adoption of AI-native development practice, tooling, and automation to significantly increase team leverage and engineering efficiency. • AI-Native Evolution: • Strategic Collaboration: Act as a high-level sparring partner to the CEO and Product leadership, navigating trade-offs between technical sustainability and delivery speed. • Strategic Collaboration: • Scalability & Excellence: Own the technical direction for our data-heavy platform, security, data and privacy (Audits, GDPR), performance, and seamless migrations while collaborating with the saas.group Central Platform team. • Scalability & Excellence: • People Development: Mentor and empower an international engineering team to embrace full ownership of their domains and foster confidence in autonomous decision-making. • People Development:
Benefits
• Ultimate Flexibility: Fully remote role with optional Nuremberg office; preferred time zone ±2 hours CET. • Ultimate Flexibility: • High Trust & Autonomy: We hire experts and get out of their way. You’ll have the freedom to solve problems your way with minimal bureaucracy. • High Trust & Autonomy: • The saas.group Network: Direct access to a global community of SaaS founders, engineering leaders, and experts to exchange knowledge and scale your own career. • The saas.group Network: • Impact: A seat at the leadership table of a brand with thousands of users where your decisions move the needle every day. • Impact:
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