[Hiring] Head of Engineering @saas.group

Role Description

As the Head of Engineering at Seobility, you lead the technical heart of a mature, high-traffic SEO SaaS product. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will bridge the gap between engineering challenges and business impact.

• 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 fostering ownership for outcomes. Guide the transition from functional (FE/BE) to end-to-end ownership.
• Optimize and Leverage:
  • Partner with the team to identify friction, bottlenecks and AI leverage potential. Implement a value-driven delivery flow with improved predictability and velocity.
• Strategic Roadmap:
  • Start executing on a roadmap that balances the strategic transformation of our engineering (e.g. tech debt, AI-native engineering, upskilling) with our product innovation goals.

Responsibilities

• AI-Native Engineering:
  • Spearhead the adoption of AI-native engineering practice to substantially increase engineering efficiency.
• Organizational Transformation:
  • Guide the evolution from functional roles to broader roles and outcome-orientation.
  • Bridge gaps between Product and Engineering to reduce dependencies and empower the team to deliver end-to-end value.
• Technical Vision:
  • Own and co-create the technical vision & roadmap with your Tech Leads, balancing "tech debt" reduction with feature delivery.
• Platform Health:
  • Ensure our data-heavy platform is fast, reliable, and secure as it scales — with data privacy and GDPR handled as a matter of course.
• People Development:
  • Mentor and empower an international engineering team to embrace full ownership and foster confidence in autonomous decision-making.
• Strategic Collaboration:
  • Act as a high-level sparring partner to the CEO and Product leadership.
  • Partner with the saas.group Central Platform team on DevOps and infrastructure topics.
  • Navigate trade-offs between technical sustainability and delivery speed.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a high-scale production environment, with a focus on efficient team structures and operational excellence.
• High technical credibility across modern stacks (ideally PHP/Laravel, Vue.js, and cloud infrastructure) with strength in architecture and system-design.
• A forward-thinking approach to AI as a core lever for both product features and engineering productivity.
• Strong product-sense, prioritizing engineering efforts based on customer value and business impact.
• Skilled at building alignment during transitions, leading teams through change and resistance.
• Measure success by what the team ships, not only by personal contributions.
• 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.

Benefits

• Fully remote role with optional Nuremberg office; preferred time zone ±2 hours CET.
• High trust and autonomy with minimal bureaucracy.
• Direct access to a global community of SaaS founders, engineering leaders, and experts.
• A seat at the leadership table of a brand with thousands of users where your decisions move the needle every day.