Head of Engineering
saas.group
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Germany
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About the role
- Build Trusting Partnerships: Establish deep working relationships with the engineering team and tech leads to foster our culture of psychological safety and high performance.
- Enable Distributed Ownership: Support the team in defining clear ownership. Guide the transition from functional (FE/BE) to cross-functional product squads that own their vertical slices.
- Optimize Flow: Partner with the team to identify bottlenecks and implement value-driven delivery cycles that improve predictability and reduce friction - not just "working faster," but working smoother.
- Strategic Roadmap: Develop a roadmap that balances the strategic transformation of the engineering organization (e.g., tackling tech debt, upskilling) with our product innovation goals.
- Establish Measurability: Answer the question "What brings value?" by introducing engineering metrics (e.g., DORA, Cycle Time) that connect code shipped to actual business impact in collaboration with our Central Platform team.
- 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.
- Technical Vision: Co-create the technical vision & roadmap with your Tech Leads, balancing "tech debt" reduction with feature delivery.
- AI-Native Evolution: Spearhead the adoption of AI-native development practice, tooling, and automation to significantly increase team leverage and engineering efficiency.
- Strategic Collaboration: Act as a high-level sparring partner to the CEO and Product leadership, navigating trade-offs between technical sustainability and delivery speed.
- 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.
- People Development: Mentor and empower an international engineering team to embrace full ownership of their domains and foster confidence in autonomous decision-making.
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.
- 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.
- Product-First Mindset: You prioritize engineering efforts based on customer value and business impact rather than technical elegance for its own sake.
- Change Management: You are skilled at building alignment during transitions, leading teams through change and resistance to a new rhythm and velocity.
- 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.
- AI Affinity: A forward-thinking approach to using LLMs and AI agents as a core lever for both product features and internal productivity.
- Domain understanding: Domain understanding of SEO-related web technologies (websites, crawling, indexing, content analysis) is a strong plus.
- Communication: Fluent English is a must; German is a strong advantage given the brand’s roots.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPLaravelVue.jscloud infrastructureengineering metricsDORACycle TimeAI-native developmentdata privacyGDPR
Soft Skills
leadershipchange managementcommunicationmentoringcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingempowermentadaptabilityrelationship building