Software Engineering Manager II (AI)

Location: 5-day in-office arrangement

Company

hirify.global is a Southeast Asian superapp providing food delivery, mobility, financial services, and other consumer services.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, including setting expectations and growth plans.
• Define priorities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Operations.
• Own engineering planning and delivery while managing dependencies and risks.
• Partner with senior engineers on technical direction, architecture, and engineering trade-offs.
• Improve system reliability, scalability, security, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish practices for design reviews, testing, deployment, incident response, hiring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• At least eight years of software engineering experience designing and operating production systems at scale.
• At least two years of experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating LLM and generative AI solutions, including model evaluation, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, and production monitoring.
• Understanding of AI risks involving hallucinations, data privacy, security, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Strong foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience delivering complex multi-team initiatives, coaching engineers, managing performance, and communicating technical and AI trade-offs.

Culture & Benefits

• Term life insurance and comprehensive medical insurance.
• Flexible benefits through hirify.globalFlex.
• Parental, birthday, and volunteering leave.
• Confidential employee assistance programme.
• FlexWork arrangements with differentiated working hours.
• Inclusive and equitable workplace focused on employee growth and ownership.