Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits in a product-led SaaS that operates core web infrastructure for SEO: dynamic rendering that helps search engines crawl modern sites. Because the service is already used at meaningful scale, the engineering focus is less about proving the concept and more about operating a high-throughput platform where performance, reliability, and correctness directly affect customer outcomes.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, the remit is aligned with the skills that compound across companies: designing and evolving distributed systems, making pragmatic architectural trade-offs, and building with observability and operational ownership in mind. The emphasis on code quality, testing, and continuous delivery maps closely to how mature SaaS teams manage risk while shipping frequently. Experience here is also portable into adjacent SaaS infrastructure domains—edge delivery, web performance, and developer tooling—where similar constraints and patterns recur.
The listing signals a fit for engineers who prefer hands-on leadership through contribution, pairing, and mentorship rather than management-only scope. It should suit someone comfortable working autonomously in a remote setup, collaborating across product and engineering, and taking responsibility from design through production operations.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
This role is part of our Prerender team, one of our growing brands at saas.group.
Prerender, is a dynamic rendering SaaS software, which operates within the saas.group portfolio. Since its integration in 2017, Prerender has revolutionized SEO practices, enabling seamless crawling by search engines while preserving user experience. Trusted by 65K companies worldwide, our platform serves an impressive 2.7 billion unique pages to web crawlers, driving enhancements for major industry players.
Profile Overview
As a Senior Engineer at Prerender, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of how the web is rendered and indexed. You’ll bring deep technical expertise, lead by example, and help guide your team through tough engineering challenges, all while keeping performance, simplicity, and reliability at the heart of your work.
This is a hands-on role where leadership comes from contribution. You'll help define direction, mentor others, and make sure the systems we build are robust, scalable, and easy to work with.
If you enjoy solving problems, and helping others grow, this could be a great fit.
Your responsibilities
- Lead by doing: Contribute to core systems while raising the bar on code quality, testing, and design.
- Drive technical conversations: Help your team navigate trade-offs and make sound architectural decisions.
- Mentor and support: Share your experience with peers and junior engineers, and help others grow in their craft.
- Simplify the complex: Find elegant solutions to performance, reliability, and scalability challenges in our distributed rendering infrastructure.
- Unblock the team: Spot problems early, resolve bottlenecks, and keep projects moving forward.
- Champion quality: Promote practices like TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery to keep us fast without sacrificing stability.
How We Work
At Prerender, engineers own what they build, from design and implementation to operations and observability. We work with a lot of autonomy and a shared commitment to quality.
- Build with ownership: You take responsibility for your work and see it through, from idea to production.
- Think beyond your team: You consider the broader system and collaborate across teams to build cohesive, maintainable solutions.
- Improve how we work: You help refine our engineering practices and tooling to make life better for every engineer on the team.
- Stay curious and humble: You’re open to feedback, eager to learn, and always looking for ways to grow, and help others do the same.
A Typical Day Might Involve
- Pairing with another engineer to debug a tricky issue or spike a new feature
- Giving feedback on a design proposal or pull request
- Helping define technical priorities in a planning session with product
- Mentoring a newer teammate through a code review or whiteboard session
- Improving tests or tooling to keep deployments smooth and safe
- Jumping into logs or metrics to trace a performance regression in production
What You bring to the table
- Proven experience: 10+ years building and shipping production software, ideally in a SaaS or infrastructure context
- Strong fundamentals: Deep understanding of modern software engineering, performance tuning, and distributed systems
- Skilled in our stack: You’re comfortable with TypeScript/Node.js and/or Golang, cloud-native tools (AWS is a plus). Experience with NestJS or Terraform is a bonus.
- Craft-focused: You write clean, maintainable code and advocate for simplicity in design
- Delivery mindset: You know how to balance speed with quality and when to optimize for each
- Mentorship skills: You enjoy helping others level up through thoughtful feedback and collaboration
- Communication: You explain technical topics clearly, both within the team and to stakeholders across the company
- Curiosity and initiative: You’re not afraid to dig deep or take the lead on making things better
Bonus if you have experience in SEO, web performance, or rendering pipelines, but it’s not a requirement.
What’s in it for You
- Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
- Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
- Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
- Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
Prerender is part of saas.group and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.
What is saas.group?
Think 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 350+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 21 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.
Also, 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.
We 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.
Sounds 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!
