Engineering Manager (Agentic Commerce)

Location: Hybrid, in-office in London, United Kingdom or Austin, United States. An in-person interview may be required at a hirify.global office or hub at the offer stage.

Company

hirify.global operates a large global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications and develops infrastructure for emerging Internet products.

What you will do

• Manage, coach, and grow engineers building high-throughput payment pipelines, agent authentication, digital wallets, and web-scale commerce systems.
• Own engineering execution by setting priorities, improving delivery predictability, and giving engineers autonomy over meaningful product areas.
• Lead development of agentic payment systems using open standards such as x402, Web Bot Auth, ACP, and UCP for low-latency machine-to-machine micropayments.
• Lead engineering for usage metering, pricing definition, outcome verification, revenue attribution, and business visibility into agent-generated revenue.
• Partner with Product Management and other engineering teams to shape the roadmap, balance delivery with technical investment, and turn customer problems into engineering outcomes.
• Own operational health, including observability, incident response, cryptographic security, reliability, and development of technical leaders.

Requirements

• Experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, including evidence of team delivery and engineer growth.
• Strong technical credibility with experienced engineers, including the ability to review designs, understand distributed-systems and payment-platform trade-offs, and identify when deeper investigation is needed.
• Experience managing teams across related technical areas such as digital wallets, payment protocols, and web authorization.
• Strong focus on reliability and quality for systems handling monetary transactions or machine authorization.
• Strong product judgment and experience partnering with Product Management to determine what to build, improve, or avoid building.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to create structure where the opportunity is clearer than the roadmap.
• Clear communication skills, including direct feedback and explaining complex technical decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Flexibility to participate in on-call coverage outside standard working hours when technical issues require it.

Nice to have

• Technical grounding in distributed systems, low-latency transaction processing, API design, web security, or related areas.
• Experience with traditional payment rails, digital wallets, open authorization or authentication standards such as OAuth, WebAuthn, or Web Bot Auth, and systems where correctness, reliability, and security are critical.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers and partnering with Product Management on roadmap execution.
• Experience taking products or major capabilities from an ambiguous opportunity to a clear customer outcome.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Familiarity with agentic or machine-to-machine payment protocols, including x402, AP2, ACP, and UCP.
• Experience with hybrid fiat and crypto payment infrastructure, payments technology, usage-based billing, metering engines, attribution systems, or complex commercial pricing models.
• Familiarity with hirify.global Workers, Durable Objects, KV, or edge-computing architectures.
• Experience turning complex underlying systems into useful payment or commerce products for a broad audience.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented culture focused on curiosity, iteration, AI-assisted problem solving, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborative team environment with regular communication, shared accountability, direct feedback, and support for learning from mistakes.
• Employee equity plan eligibility.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter spending, fertility and family-forming support, mental-health support, travel medical insurance, disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan for eligible United States employees.
• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, plus parental, pregnancy, medical, and bereavement leave programs.

Hiring process

• Candidates progressing to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• The role may involve access to information protected by U.S. export-control laws, and an offer may depend on authorization to receive controlled technology without sponsorship for an export license.