Engineering Manager (Java/Spring Boot)

Location: Remote, Kenya

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools for businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional product teams.
• Evaluate requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment, translating them into EPICs, user stories, and actionable tasks.
• Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineers, and QA to refine and prioritize the backlog.
• Plan sprints, define milestones, track dependencies, and optimize team capacity and resource allocation.
• Guide design decisions, enforce engineering standards, participate in code reviews, and support incident response.
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, observability, SLIs, SLOs, and post-release product metrics are maintained for owned services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8–10 years of experience in software development or a similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of experience building production systems with Java and Spring Boot.
• At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Strong backend engineering skills, Agile delivery experience, and the ability to translate complex requirements into structured technical work.
• Experience with CI/CD, release management, monitoring, production debugging, incident response, blameless RCA, risk management, and stakeholder communication.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first environment focused on well-being, inclusion, respect, and open participation.
• Learning and development support through knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and additional benefits.

Hiring process

• Preliminary recruiter phone call.
• Live coding and code review session.
• System design and technical discussion, project planning and product thinking, followed by a behavioral and technical interview with the hiring manager.