Head of Engineering

Role Overview

As the Head of Engineering at Seobility, you lead the technical heart of a mature, high-traffic SEO SaaS product. In a rapidly changing market shaped by AI-driven search, you are the architect of our organizational and technical evolution. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will bridge the gap between engineering challenges and business impact. You guide the team through a transformation toward greater autonomy and lead them towards outcome focussed execution and AI-native engineering.

Your Impact (First 3-6 Months)

• 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 Flow: Partner with the team to identify friction and bottlenecks to 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. tackling tech debt, agent readiness, upskilling) with our product innovation goals.

Responsibilities

• Organizational Transformation: Guide the evolution of our collaboration model from functional roles toward cross-functional efficiency. You bridge gaps between Product and Engineering, 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.
• AI-Native Evolution: Spearhead the adoption of AI-native development practice, tooling, and automation to increase team leverage and engineering efficiency.
• Strategic Collaboration: Act as a high-level sparring partner to the CEO and Product leadership. Navigate trade-offs between technical sustainability and delivery speed.
• Scalability & Excellence: Own the technical direction for our data-heavy platform, security, data and privacy (Audits, GDPR), performance, and seamless migrations while collaborating with the saas.group Central Platform team.
• People Development: Mentor and empower an international engineering team to embrace full ownership and foster confidence in autonomous decision-making.

What you bring to the table

• SaaS Leadership: Proven track record of leading engineering teams in a high-scale production environment, with a focus on efficient team structures and operational excellence.
• Technical Credibility: 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.
• Product-First Mindset: You prioritize engineering efforts based on customer value and business impact rather than technical elegance for its own sake.
• Change Management: You are skilled at building a