saas.group
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This role is part of our Prerender team, one of our largest brands at saas.group .
Prerender is a dynamic rendering SaaS platform within the saas.group portfolio. Since 2017, we've revolutionized SEO practices by enabling search engines to crawl JavaScript-heavy sites seamlessly while preserving user experience. Thousands of companies worldwide trust our platform, which serves over 2.7 billion unique pages to web crawlers and drives results for enterprises and growing businesses alike.
Profile Overview
Prerender has built a platform that thousands of companies trust to serve billions of pages to web crawlers. Now we're evolving into something bigger: the layer that makes the web legible to machines, both the search crawlers that have always mattered and the AI systems that increasingly decide what people find.
To get there, we need to transform how we build product. We're looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead that transformation, shifting our engineering organization from infrastructure-optimization to a high-velocity, product-focused team that moves fast and ships features that matter.
This is a building role, not a caretaker role. You'll own the technology vision, set the engineering strategy, and have authority over the R&D budget, team, and technical direction. You'll embed AI-first engineering practices, make smart infrastructure tradeoffs, and build the improvement motion that makes delivery faster and keeps it that way.
You'll lead a small, senior engineering team — around seven engineers today — supported by shared platform and DevOps resources from saas.group 's central team. There is no management layer between you and the engineers, which puts you close to the work and means the leadership has to come from you.
So we need someone hands-on enough to augment the team, not to manage it from a distance, and who can do that without losing hold of the strategy and the responsibilities only this role carries.
We need deep technical expertise, a strong infrastructure background, and a proven track record of transforming engineering teams at SaaS companies.
Your responsibilities
Technology Vision and Strategy:
Security and Compliance:
Team Management and Growth:
Execution and Delivery:
Manage change deliberately. Changes to practice, process and infrastructure reach the people who have to run them — and, where customers are affected, the customers — with notice, consultation, and a route to raise a question before the change lands.
Executive Partnership and Stakeholder Management:
Ownership & Autonomy:
Run that budget as a managed number. Maintain an infrastructure cost model, report forecast against actual, and be able to say what a decision costs before it's made.
What You bring to the table
Strong infrastructure background with experience running large-scale distributed systems and production Kubernetes, and making strategic tradeoffs between cost, maintenance burden, and engineering velocity. You've 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, where it produces plausible work that doesn't hold up, and how review standards survive the increase in volume.
What’s in it for You
Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. Work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
Freedom and autonomy: High-trust environment with lots of independence to solve problems your way, with support when you need it.
Minimum bureaucracy: We stay efficient and keep momentum sustainable. No death by meetings.
Real impact: This is a C-level role with a seat at the executive table, board visibility, and the mandate to transform how we build product.
Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and don't take ourselves too seriously.
Our network: Access to a community of SaaS professionals across the saas.group portfolio who regularly exchange ideas and expertise.
Flexible time off: Recharge when you need to.
Learning Budget: Generous budget for classes, conferences, books, and other learning resources.
Prerender is part of saas.group , and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.
What is saas.group ?
Think of us as the driving catalyst 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 380+ 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.
Also, don’t forget to follow saas.group on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our job openings, podcast episodes, and with all things happening at our company.
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!
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saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.
We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview - so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.
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