Senior Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Remote, USA

Base salary: $176,000–$220,000 in Zone 3, $193,600–$242,000 in Zone 2, or $202,400–$253,000 in Zone 1, depending on geographic zone.

Company

hirify.global delivers virtual-first chronic-care support through human-led care teams, connected devices, and AI-enabled technology for conditions including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, and musculoskeletal conditions.

What you will do

• Own AI-powered member experiences for goal setting, food guidance, reflection, and daily challenges, including handoffs to human coaches.
• Lead delivery across multiple squads, including sprint shaping, prioritization, backlog grooming, estimation, and capacity allocation.
• Improve cycle time while maintaining delivery quality and explain changes in squad performance.
• Stay hands-on by shipping production code, reviewing architecture, supporting incidents, and working in agent-based development workflows.
• Partner with Product Strategists to align product scope, delivery feasibility, cost, and roadmap decisions.
• Grow engineering managers and technical leaders, plan future headcount and skill mix, and establish AI engineering standards across squads.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years managing engineers directly.
• Experience developing another leader, such as a direct-report manager or an engineer grown into a tech lead or engineering manager with real accountability.
• Track record of shipping mission-critical software to production and owning its operation afterward.
• Experience owning team prioritization and estimation, including making and explaining trade-offs.
• Experience giving direct developmental feedback and managing an underperformance situation with meaningful support.
• Currently shipping or recently shipped production code in at least one layer of the stack: backend, web frontend, iOS, or Android; sufficient range to follow the others and critically review architecture.
• Comfort with an expert-generalist team model, including understanding its risks and opportunities.
• Hands-on experience directing AI agents through real-world production changes and a considered view of where they help or create rework.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and telemetry, plus excellent written communication.

Nice to have

• Experience managing managers or growing engineers into technical leadership roles.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work-from-home culture in the USA.
• Flexible Time Off, generous parental leave, and health, dental, and vision insurance with above-market employer contributions.
• Annual cash bonus, equity grants, employee stock purchasing plan, and 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Lifestyle Spending Account and mental health support solutions.
• Culture centered on trust, context, bold action, results, collaboration, and improving healthcare access.

Hiring process

• Applicants should be prepared to explain where a leader they developed is now.
• Applicants should provide examples of owning mistakes in production, making prioritization trade-offs, and supporting someone through underperformance.