Engineering Manager - Monetization (Fintech)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid schedule with office attendance on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Wednesdays and Fridays are more flexible. English is the working language.

Company

hirify.global develops credential security products trusted by millions of consumers and more than 25,000 brands, with offices in France, the United States, and Portugal.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and mentor a distributed team of server and web engineers.
• Own the architecture and operational health of billing systems, subscription lifecycle engines, checkout experiences, and back-office administration tools.
• Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, complex migrations, and payment gateway consolidation.
• Partner with Product, Design, Finance, Data, Legal, Security, and other stakeholders on plans, pricing, payment methods, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure high availability, financial accuracy, transactional consistency, auditability, and minimal PCI scope.
• Recruit software engineers, improve the software development lifecycle, and promote AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of experience in people and project management, ideally in a distributed environment.
• Fluency in English.
• Experience managing and growing high-performing engineering teams, including senior and staff engineers, in a modern distributed or remote environment.
• Strong background in distributed backend systems, event-driven architectures, relational databases, and transactional integrity.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, identify bottlenecks, and lead pragmatic, iterative migrations.
• Strong interest in cybersecurity and active experience using AI tools in current work.

Nice to have

• Experience with recurring billing, subscription lifecycles, and payment processor integrations such as Stripe, PayPal, or mobile app store purchases.
• JavaScript or TypeScript experience.
• Experience at a company of approximately 100–500 employees and during scale-up.
• BS degree in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Management, or a similar relevant field.
• Experience shipping software across browser extensions, native apps, embedded SDKs, or other constrained client environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with flexible scheduling aligned with the manager.
• Monthly benefits budget, company-covered health insurance, mental health services, and quarterly well-being days.
• Five additional vacation days annually, birthday leave, and up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Donation matching, team lunches, monthly social events, and other team-building activities.
• International, distributed culture focused on inclusion, learning, technical excellence, psychological safety, and responsible AI adoption.

Hiring process

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