Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Computer Backup

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $205,000-$255,000 base pay annually

Company

hirify.global provides cloud storage and backup services for consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and developers, including Computer Backup for Windows and macOS.

What you will do

• Lead the full Computer Backup engineering organization through Desktop and Backend Leads.
• Set long-term technical direction and make architecture and platform decisions for a growing product and customer base.
• Own multi-quarter delivery strategy, partner with Product leadership on the roadmap, and negotiate scope, schedule, and priorities.
• Manage the team budget, headcount, tooling, and infrastructure investments.
• Coordinate desktop and backend delivery from planning and design through implementation, release, and post-launch support.
• Improve reliability, performance, maintainability, automated testing, agile delivery, and AI-assisted development practices while participating in code reviews and technical decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of engineering management experience, including managing managers or team leads.
• Experience in a cloud, SaaS, desktop software, or platform engineering environment.
• Experience setting long-term technical direction and system architecture for a growing product or platform.
• Experience owning multi-quarter technical and delivery strategy, shaping product roadmaps, and negotiating scope, schedule, and priorities with Product and senior leadership.
• Experience managing a team or departmental budget, including resourcing and investment decisions.
• Deep experience with agile development, including Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Demonstrated experience managing distributed, remote engineering teams with strong asynchronous communication and remote collaboration practices.
• Strong software engineering background with deep system architecture expertise and the ability to participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Solid command of the software development lifecycle from requirements and design through deployment and production support.
• Commitment to engineering quality, unit testing, automated test coverage, and integrating testing into everyday development.
• Experience delivering software across desktop clients, backend services, or both.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, including direct work with senior leadership and major customers and early escalation of risks with clear recommendations.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture supporting work-life balance.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Flat, low-bureaucracy environment with experienced engineering, product, and QA teams.
• Opportunity to lead a core product line protecting customer data and collaborate directly with senior leadership.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.