Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Engineering management roles inside established SaaS products are often defined by how well they balance reliability with continuous product iteration. This position sits within Prerender, a long-running SEO infrastructure product operating at meaningful web-scale, where crawlability, performance, and operational consistency directly affect customer outcomes—an especially relevant problem space for SaaS companies serving marketing and growth teams.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the role offers durable experience in the mechanics that many subscription businesses depend on: delivery flow, incident learning loops, and measurable team health. The emphasis on cycle time, WIP, and incident follow-ups signals exposure to the operational side of SaaS engineering—not just shipping features, but improving how work moves through the system over time. Collaboration in product/design “trios” also maps well to modern SaaS org design, where engineering leadership is expected to influence prioritisation and trade-offs.
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 Prerenderteam, one of our growing brands at saas.group.
For nearly a decade, Prerender has empowered marketers to create dynamic, complex sites at scale, making their JavaScript websites easily indexable by search engines. We eliminate indexing and crawling limitations, allowing our customers to gain the upper-hand on HTML sites and rank higher on SERPs. More than 100,000 websites around the globe trust Prerender to serve more than 2.7 billion web pages to crawlers to improve organic search ranking.
Profile Overview
As an Engineering Manager at Prerender, you empower teams to do their best work. You focus on creating the conditions for engineers to thrive: clear priorities, healthy processes, and a strong culture of collaboration and XP practices. You balance delivery and people growth, ensuring that our systems and teams evolve together sustainably.
How We Work Together
- Managers are servant leaders: they remove obstacles, not dictate solutions
- We expect you to empower engineers to own their work end‑to‑end
- You’ll collaborate closely with product and design to form strong trios
- Success is measured in team outcomes and sustainability, not individual heroics
- You help keep the team aligned with Prerender’s strategy and values
Your responsibilities & typical day
- 1:1s and coaching conversations; unblocking a teammate or facilitating a decision
- Partnering with PM/Design to refine the next slice of work and clarify scope
- Reviewing team health and delivery metrics (cycle time, WIP, incident follow‑ups)
- Joining a pairing session to understand context and offer feedback (not to gatekeep)
- Coordinating a cross‑team dependency or aligning on an architecture change
- Hiring activities: interviewing, feedback, and improving our hiring signal
- Running or improving a retro, turning insights into small, actionable experiments
What You bring to the table
- 2+ years managing software engineers; 10+ years total in engineering
- Experience leading XP/DevOps practices (pairing, TDD, CI/CD, trunk‑based development)
- Proven coaching, facilitation, and conflict‑resolution skills
- Track record of improving delivery flow and operational excellence (SLOs/incident reviews)
- Ability to collaborate deeply with Product & Design; strong stakeholder communication
- Sufficient technical depth to support decisions in a cloud‑native environment (TypeScript/Node.js or Go, AWS)
- Bias for simplicity, incremental change, and sustainable pace
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.
Prerenderis 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 23 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!
