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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.\nProfile Overview\nPrerender 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.\nTo 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.\nThis 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.\nYou'll lead a small, senior engineering team - around seven engineers today - supported by shared platform and DevOps resources fromsaas.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.\nSo 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.\nWe need deep technical expertise, a strong infrastructure background, and a proven track record of transforming engineering teams at SaaS companies.\nYour responsibilities\nTechnology Vision and Strategy:\nOwn the technology vision, roadmap, and engineering strategy for Prerender. Align engineering work with business objectives and customer value.\nLead adoption of AI-assisted development tooling to multiply team productivity; own the quality bar for what it produces.\nDrive architecture and infrastructure decisions with a holistic view of TCO that includes maintenance burden and engineering opportunity cost, not just hosting spend.\nRun a multi-region, Kubernetes-based render fleet efficiently: cost per render, reliability, and the operational hygiene that keeps both from drifting.\nRepresent Prerender's technical capabilities to customers, partners, and the broader market.\nMaintain high standards of software quality, performance, security, and reliability.\nTrack shifts in technology and engineering practice, and bring the ones that change how we build into the team.\nSecurity and Compliance:\nOwn security and compliance as a standing program. Prerender completes SOC 2 Type II and its ISO 27001 certification decision at the end of 2026; you inherit the year-two observation period, the surveillance audit, and the operational discipline that keeps both credible.\nKeep the program legible to someone other than you: named owners, current vendor and auditor contacts, and no single point of failure.\nTeam Management and Growth:\nCoach and mentor engineers to reach their full potential. Set clear expectations and create opportunities for growth. People matter here.\nBuild a culture of ownership, where engineers carry their decisions through instead of escalating them.\nFoster diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization.\nExecution and Delivery:\nOwn the continuous improvement motion of delivery. The team finds and removes its own bottlenecks on a regular cadence.\nEnhance DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring systems.\nDefine and track engineering metrics that matter. Use data to identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows.\nManage 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.\nExecutive Partnership and Stakeholder Management:\nPartner with the CEO and leadership team on company strategy. Communicate technology progress to company leadership and the board.\nWork closely with Product to align engineering capacity with customer needs.\nTranslate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and advocate for investments that drive business growth.\nOwnership & Autonomy:\nOwn the full R&D budget including personnel, infrastructure, tooling, and vendor relationships.\n 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.\nMake the right decisions for engineering, aligned with company strategy, without second-guessing or micromanagement.\nWhat You bring to the table\n10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership (VP/Director/CTO) at a SaaS company.\nStrong 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.\nDemonstrated 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.\nProven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering teams, ideally through a significant transformation.\nA track record of raising a team's delivery speed and keeping it raised long after the initial push, with the measurement and process change that made it stick.\nA record of landing process and platform change that sticks, with the people affected brought along before it landed.\nExperience owning a security and compliance program in a SaaS company - SOC 2, ISO 27001 or equivalent - as a continuing operational responsibility.\nBusiness-oriented and hands-on: you understand how engineering decisions connect to revenue and customer value, and you contribute directly alongside the team, through the same review and planning process as everyone else.\nExperience with scalable, high-performance web products, CI/CD, DevOps, and security principles. SEO or search-related experience is a plus.\nExcellent communication skills. Comfortable presenting to boards, working with executives, and collaborating cross-functionally. Communication is async-first in our remote environment, leaning on clear, timely updates with documentation up-to-date and readable and proactive context-sharing.\nWhat’s in it for You\nUltimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. Work from wherever you like, whenever you like.\nFreedom and autonomy: High-trust environment with lots of independence to solve problems your way, with support when you need it.\nMinimum bureaucracy: We stay efficient and keep momentum sustainable. No death by meetings.\nReal 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.\nSmall & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and don't take ourselves too seriously.\nOur network: Access to a community of SaaS professionals across thesaas.group portfolio who regularly exchange ideas and expertise.\nFlexible time off: Recharge when you need to.\nLearning Budget: Generous budget for classes, conferences, books, and other learning resources.\nPrerender is part ofsaas.group, and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.\nWhat is saas.group?\nThink 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.\nAlso, 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.\nWe 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. \nSounds 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!\n-\nsaas.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.\nWe believe in fair and transparent pay. 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