Head of Engineering

Role Overview

• Establish deep working relationships with the engineering team and tech leads to foster our culture of psychological safety and high performance.
• Support the team in fostering ownership for outcomes. Guide the transition from functional (FE/BE) to end-to-end ownership.
• Partner with the team to identify friction and bottlenecks to implement a value-driven delivery flow with improved predictability and velocity.
• Start executing on a roadmap that balances strategic transformation of our engineering (e.g. tackling tech debt, agent readiness, upskilling) with product innovation goals.
• Guide the evolution of collaboration model from functional roles toward cross-functional efficiency. Bridge gaps between Product and Engineering, reduce dependencies and empower the team to deliver end-to-end value.
• Own and co-create the technical vision & roadmap with your Tech Leads, balancing "tech debt" reduction with feature delivery.
• Spearhead the adoption of AI-native development practice, tooling, and automation to increase team leverage and engineering efficiency.
• Act as a high-level sparring partner to the CEO and Product leadership. Navigate trade-offs between technical sustainability and delivery speed.
• Own the technical direction for data-heavy platform, security, data and privacy (Audits, GDPR), performance, and seamless migrations while collaborating with the saas.group Central Platform team.
• Mentor and empower an international engineering team to embrace full ownership and foster confidence in autonomous decision-making.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a high-scale production environment, with a focus on efficient team structures and operational excellence.
• 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.
• You prioritize engineering efforts based on customer value and business impact rather than technical elegance for its own sake.
• You are skilled at building alignment during transitions, leading teams through change and resistance to a new rhythm and velocity.
• You measure your success by what your team (incl. you) ships, not only by what you personally build.
• A forward-thinking approach to using LLMs and AI agents as a core lever for both product features and internal productivity.
• Domain understanding of SEO-related web technologies (websites, crawling, indexing, content analysis) is a strong plus.
• Fluent English is a must; German is a strong advantage given the brand’s roots.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• JavaScript
• Laravel
• PHP
• Vue.js

Benefits

• Ultimate Flexibility: Fully remote role with optional Nuremberg office; preferred time zone ±2 hours CET.
• High Trust & Autonomy: We hire experts and get out of their way. You’ll have the freedom to solve problems your way with minimal bureaucracy.
• The saas.group Network: Direct access to a global community of SaaS founders, engineering leaders, and experts to exchange knowledge and scale your own career.
• Impact: A seat at the leadership table of a brand with thousands of users where your decisions move the needle every day.