Software Engineering Team Lead (Rust)

Location: Remote within the United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage, product-led, remote-first company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform that lets developers and AI coding agents run code against live clusters before deployment. The open-source product is used by thousands of developers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies.

What you will do

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

Requirements

• At least 1 year of experience leading engineering teams.
• 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, including data stores, message brokers, and GitOps tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, asynchronous, and low-meeting work environment.
• Work on open-source infrastructure and meaningful problems at the intersection of local development and cloud infrastructure.
• Small, high-caliber team with direct impact on developers and enterprise customers.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Culture that respects personal time.