Director of Engineering

Remote, Europe 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, 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, 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 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 engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, 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, 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...