Software Engineering Team Lead (Rust)

Location: Portugal; remote

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage, product-led, remote-first company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform for running code and AI coding agents against live clusters before deployment.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of cloud integration features such as queue splitting and database branching.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase and work with Kubernetes, cloud services, databases, message brokers, and related platforms.
• Set technical direction, maintain engineering standards, prioritize work, unblock engineers, and execute the roadmap.
• Drive effective use of AI across the team and hire and mentor engineers as the team grows.
• Partner with Product, Solution Engineering, and users to drive adoption and expansion.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams and at least 4 years of professional experience writing production-grade code in Rust, preferably, or C++ or C.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Strong systems-level thinking and the ability to debug complex, distributed environments.
• Comfort working asynchronously in a remote-first startup environment.

Nice to have

• Experience building developer tools.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components interacting with the Kubernetes API.
• Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling such as data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on complex problems at the intersection of local development and cloud infrastructure.
• Join a small, high-caliber team whose work impacts thousands of developers and Fortune 500 companies.
• Contribute to an open-source product used by developers.
• Remote-first, async-friendly environment with few meetings and respect for personal time.
• Competitive salary and stock options.