Chief Technology Officer
Job description
Chief Technology Officer for Prerender, a dynamic rendering SaaS platform within the saas.group portfolio. The role owns technology vision, engineering strategy, and a small senior engineering team, transforming the organization into a high-velocity, product-focused team.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Own the technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy for Prerender; align engineering work with business objectives and customer value
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted development tooling to multiply team productivity; own the quality bar for what it produces
- Drive architecture and infrastructure decisions with a holistic view of TCO including maintenance burden and engineering opportunity cost
- Run a multi-region, Kubernetes-based render fleet efficiently: cost per render, reliability, and operational hygiene
- Represent Prerender's technical capabilities to customers, partners, and the broader market
- Maintain high standards of software quality, performance, security, and reliability
- Track shifts in technology and engineering practice and bring relevant ones into the team
- Own security and compliance as a standing program, including SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 surveillance audit and operational discipline
- Keep the compliance program legible with named owners, current vendor and auditor contacts, and no single point of failure
- Coach and mentor engineers, set clear expectations, and create opportunities for growth
- Build a culture of ownership where engineers carry their decisions through
- Foster diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization
- Own the continuous improvement motion of delivery; the team finds and removes its own bottlenecks on a regular cadence
- Enhance DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring systems
- Define and track engineering metrics that matter; use data to identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows
- Manage change deliberately, with notice, consultation, and a route to raise questions before changes land
- Partner with the CEO and leadership team on company strategy; communicate technology progress to leadership and the board
- Work closely with Product to align engineering capacity with customer needs
- Translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for investments that drive business growth
- Own the full R&D budget including personnel, infrastructure, tooling, and vendor relationships
- Maintain an infrastructure cost model, report forecast against actual, and state what a decision costs before it is made
- Make engineering decisions aligned with company strategy without micromanagement
What we're looking for
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership (VP/Director/CTO) at a SaaS company
- Strong infrastructure background with experience running large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes, and making strategic tradeoffs between cost, maintenance burden, and engineering velocity
- Driven unit costs down on a fleet you owned
- Demonstrated ability to embed AI tooling into engineering workflows and multiply team productivity, with a clear-eyed view of where it helps and how review standards survive increased volume
- Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering teams, ideally through a significant transformation
- A track record of raising a team's delivery speed and keeping it raised, with the measurement and process change that made it stick
- A record of landing process and platform change that sticks, with the people affected brought along before it landed
- Experience owning a security and compliance program in a SaaS company — SOC 2, ISO 27001 or equivalent — as a continuing operational responsibility
- Business-oriented and hands-on: understands how engineering decisions connect to revenue and customer value, and contributes directly alongside the team through the same review and planning process
- Experience with scalable, high-performance web products, CI/CD, DevOps, and security principles
- Excellent communication skills; comfortable presenting to boards, working with executives, and collaborating cross-functionally
- Async-first communication leaning on clear, timely updates with documentation up-to-date and readable and proactive context-sharing
Nice to have
- SEO or search-related experience
Your team
Prerender
A dynamic rendering SaaS platform within the saas.group portfolio, serving over 2.7 billion unique pages to web crawlers; the engineering team is around seven engineers supported by shared platform and DevOps resources from saas.group's central team.
Benefits
Freedom and autonomy: high-trust environment with lots of independence to solve problems your way, with support when you need it
Real impact: C-level role with a seat at the executive table, board visibility, and the mandate to transform how we build product
Our network: access to a community of SaaS professionals across the saas.group portfolio who regularly exchange ideas and expertise
- Ultimate flexibility: 100% remote, work from wherever you like, whenever you like
- Minimum bureaucracy: efficient and sustainable momentum, no death by meetings
- Small & friendly team: help each other out, have fun, and don't take ourselves too seriously
- Flexible time off: recharge when you need to
- Learning Budget: generous budget for classes, conferences, books, and other learning resources
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About saas.group
The driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories
saas.group, established in 2017, is a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse that acquires small software treasures and polishes them into industry stars. It has a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 380+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries and grows 25 exciting brands under its umbrella.
Mission
To turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential, and build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies
Key facts
- nearly 380+ colleagues
- 2017
- B2B SaaS portfolio
- Established in 2017
- Fully remote team of nearly 380+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries
- Grows 25 exciting brands under its umbrella
- Prerender serves over 2.7 billion unique pages to web crawlers
- Salary ranges are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and shared in writing before the first interview
What they value
- Diversity and inclusion
- Ownership
- High trust and autonomy
- Minimum bureaucracy
- Succeeding together