Manager, Engineering (Product)

Location: Hybrid role at Flock HQ in Encinitas, California, United States, with in-office work on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Candidates should be local to or willing to relocate to hirify.global's San Diego headquarters; talent is targeted in the San Diego/Encinitas and Los Angeles areas.

Salary: $180,000–$205,000 per year, plus equity and benefits for full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a U.S. Shared Truckload freight brokerage using AI-powered, patented pooling technology to combine shipments across its customer network, improving shipping efficiency, carrier earnings, cost savings, and environmental impact. hirify.global has been a Certified B Corp since 2020.

What you will do

• Lead and develop an established Product Engineering team of seven engineers, including five Staff Engineers, through coaching, 1:1s, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Own engineering execution and delivery, translate business priorities into milestones, manage competing priorities, and deliver customer and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to create technical roadmaps and translate customer and business goals into engineering priorities.
• Guide architectural discussions and technical decisions involving infrastructure, system design, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Maintain production health through ownership, on-call practices, incident response, observability, and corrective actions.
• Improve engineering effectiveness, developer productivity, software quality, hiring, onboarding, team collaboration, technical standards, and measurement of delivery, quality, operational health, and business impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong senior-level technical expertise or equivalent technical leadership experience.
• 1–2+ years of demonstrated people leadership experience through engineering management, coaching, mentoring, engineer development, or responsibility for team performance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong technical grounding in backend and web application development; the current stack emphasizes Java, Spring, TypeScript, and React.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, mentor experienced engineers, participate in code reviews and design discussions, and provide constructive technical guidance without focusing on daily coding.
• Strong project-management skills, including defining MVPs with Product, decomposing work into iterative deliverables, running an agile or iterative process, and keeping delivery on track.
• Ability to partner with Product and non-technical stakeholders, set priorities, negotiate scope, and make decisions under uncertainty.
• Experience hiring, training, developing, and onboarding engineers at multiple levels.
• Ability to navigate team conflict, resolve challenges constructively, implement sustainable process improvements, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and thrive in smaller, agile, or rapidly evolving engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with scheduled in-office and work-from-home days; Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday are in-office days.
• 401(k) plan.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HMO and PPO options for employees and dependents.
• Inclusive workplace focused on fairness, merit, collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and diverse perspectives.
• Full-time employees are eligible for an equity package and competitive total-rewards benefits.