CTO

• Team Leadership & Scaling: Lead, mentor, and grow the engineering team (initially 5-8 direct reports, including Team Leads, Senior Engineers and QA) and establish efficient workflows without unnecessary bureaucracy
• Technical Strategy & Modernization: Pragmatically modernize a successful open-source SaaS product, improve software architecture, reduce technical debt, and ensure long-term product health
• Delivery & QA Discipline: Implement strong structures for product roadmaps, scoping, planning, quality assurance and major releases (including next-generation rollouts)
• Security & Compliance: Strengthen security standards and mature engineering processes toward ISO certification (e.g., ISO 27001)
• Budget & Stakeholder Management: Full responsibility for the engineering budget (hiring, cloud infrastructure, external services, tooling) while you work closely with the CEO, Product and Sales teams

• Proven track record in leading and scaling engineering teams of 10-50+ people within a B2B SaaS, platform, or product-led digital environment
• Strong background in product engineering, enabling you to challenge architecture decisions and remain close to product reality
• Comfortable managing and upgrading legacy systems efficiently while keeping business goals in mind
• High commitment to quality assurance, delivery discipline and structured release processes
• Fluent in English, German is considered a plus, combined with a highly collaborative mindset to work directly with the CEO
• Experience with open-source software, PHP/Yii framework, ISO 27001 standards or AI/product innovation is a strong plus

Our partner is an international SaaS platform builder, focused on ease of use, stability, and extensibility. Supported by a fast-growing global community and an international team, the platform is used in nearly 150 countries ranging from local governments to small businesses and publicly traded enterprises., Vergütungspaket * The opportunity to shape a globally recognized open-source product with millions of users * High autonomy, budget responsibility, and a key role in company strategy * A creative, international team and an active global community * Modern office in Hamburg with flexible working all over Europe, PALTRON HR services and consulting 51-200 employees Hamburg, Germany