Chief Technology Officer

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👨‍💼 Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

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saas.group

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

saas. group is a company that acquires SaaS companies with a focus on bootstrapped businesses. They utilize a founder-friendly approach to enhance products and scale teams, ensuring that the company's original identity is preserved. saas. group offers a supportive exit strategy for founders, prioritizing the legacy and growth of the companies they acquire. They are committed to a streamlined acquisition process with minimal legal back and forth, focusing on product-led growth, community support, and empowering founders with financial freedom. The company specializes in small to mid-sized SaaS companies with recurring revenue models, aiming to elevate these businesses to become market leaders.

📋 Description

• Own Prerender's technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy • Align engineering work with business objectives and customer value • Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tooling and maintain the quality bar • Drive architecture and infrastructure decisions using total cost of ownership, maintenance burden, and engineering opportunity cost • Run a multi-region, Kubernetes-based rendering fleet for cost efficiency, reliability, and operational hygiene • Represent Prerender's technical capabilities to customers, partners, and the broader market • Maintain software quality, performance, security, and reliability standards • Monitor technology and engineering-practice shifts and implement relevant improvements • Own security and compliance, including SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 operational responsibilities • Maintain clear security-program ownership, vendor contacts, auditor contacts, and continuity • Coach and mentor engineers, set expectations, and create growth opportunities • Build a culture of engineering ownership and foster diversity and inclusion • Own continuous delivery improvement and remove team bottlenecks • Enhance DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring systems • Define and track meaningful engineering metrics and optimize workflows • Manage changes deliberately with notice, consultation, and routes for questions • Partner with the CEO and leadership team on company strategy • Communicate technology progress to leadership and the board • Work with Product to align engineering capacity with customer needs • Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for business-growth investments • Own the full R&D budget, including personnel, infrastructure, tooling, and vendors • Maintain infrastructure cost models and report forecast against actuals • Make autonomous engineering decisions aligned with company strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering • 5+ years in senior engineering leadership (VP/Director/CTO) at a SaaS company • Strong infrastructure background • Experience running large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes • Experience making strategic tradeoffs between cost, maintenance burden, and engineering velocity • Experience driving unit costs down on an owned fleet • Demonstrated ability to embed AI tooling into engineering workflows and multiply team productivity • Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering teams, ideally through a significant transformation • Track record of raising and sustaining engineering delivery speed through measurement and process change • Record of implementing lasting process and platform changes with affected people brought along before implementation • Experience owning a continuing SaaS security and compliance program, such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 • Business-oriented and hands-on approach connecting engineering decisions to revenue and customer value • Experience with scalable, high-performance web products, CI/CD, DevOps, and security principles • SEO or search-related experience is a plus • Excellent communication skills • Comfortable presenting to boards, working with executives, and collaborating cross-functionally • Comfortable with async-first communication, clear timely updates, current documentation, and proactive context-sharing

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work; work from wherever you like, whenever you like • High-trust environment with substantial independence and support • Minimum bureaucracy and few meetings • C-level role with executive-table seat, board visibility, and mandate to transform product development • Small, friendly team • Access to the saas.group community of SaaS professionals • Flexible time off • Generous learning budget for classes, conferences, books, and other learning resources