Profile Overview As the Director of Engineering, you will lead and grow our engineering team, defining technical strategy and ensuring the successful delivery of our product suite. This role requires a hands‑on leader with deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record of leading engineering teams at a SaaS company.
Responsibilities
Define and execute the engineering vision, ensuring alignment with the company's product and business objectives.
Oversee architecture and development of a scalable, high‑performing, and secure discoverability platform.
Stay ahead of industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and technical excellence.
Ensure high standards of software quality, including performance, security and reliability.
Manage and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Establish best practices for hiring, onboarding, and professional development.
Promote diversity and inclusion within the engineering organization.
Drive the development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring timely and high‑quality releases.
Implement DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and robust monitoring systems.
Monitor KPIs and engineering metrics to track progress, identify bottlenecks and optimize workflows.
Build the engineering budget once a year, focusing on cost optimisation.
Allocate approximately 80% of time to leadership and strategic oversight, with ~20% dedicated to hands‑on coding and technical contribution when needed.
Partner with Product, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams to ensure technical alignment with customer needs.
Communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
Advocate for engineering initiatives that drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
Qualifications
10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in a leadership role at a SaaS company.
Proven experience managing, scaling, mentoring and coaching engineering teams, ideally in a B2B SaaS company.
Strong technical background in modern web technologies, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
Experience building and maintaining scalable, high-performance SEO or search‑related products is a plus.
Deep understanding of software development best practices, CI/CD, DevOps and security principles.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross‑functional teams, including product managers, designers and stakeholders.
Benefits
Ultimate flexibility: 100% remote, work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
Freedom and autonomy: high‑trust team with independence to solve problems in your own way.
Minimum bureaucracy: efficient, low meeting load, maintain momentum.
Small & friendly team: supportive, fun culture.
Learning budget: generous budget for classes, conferences, books and other learning resources.
Versátil time off: recharge when needed.
Equal Opportunity Employer 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.
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