Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure (Ruby on Rails)

Location: Remote, with listed locations in Ottawa, Calgary, and Toronto, Canada.

Company

hirify.global is a health technology company providing a platform for practitioners and patients with clinical insights, lab interpretations, analytics, education, care-plan connectivity, and access to supplements.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, hire, and develop backend infrastructure engineers through feedback, career development, performance management, and clear expectations.
• Own the team roadmap and guide technical direction for the Ruby on Rails monolith, improving maintainability, scalability, reliability, security, and application health.
• Lead Ruby, Rails, framework, and dependency upgrades, coordinating migrations and releases across affected teams.
• Improve developer productivity through shared tooling, CI checks, testing infrastructure, documentation, and simpler workflows.
• Oversee shared application infrastructure, including feature flags, end-to-end tests, and infrastructure-as-code within the monolith.
• Coordinate cross-team projects, partner with product engineering teams, and track outcomes such as faster feedback cycles and fewer recurring failures.

Requirements

• Experience managing software engineers, including coaching, career development, performance management, and hiring.
• Strong backend engineering background with Ruby on Rails and experience maintaining production applications.
• Technical judgment across application architecture, testing, performance, reliability, and security.
• Experience leading platform, infrastructure, developer experience, or other technical work serving multiple teams.
• Strong project and program management skills, including dependency coordination, delivery-risk management, and rollout planning.
• Ability to turn broad technical needs into a prioritized roadmap and explain their business and engineering value.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build agreement across teams with different priorities.
• Ability to balance people management, technical guidance, delivery, and engineering ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience evolving a large Rails monolith or supporting high-scale web applications.
• Experience leading major framework upgrades or migrations across multiple teams.
• Experience improving CI pipelines, test suites, feature flag systems, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, React, Remix, or GraphQL.
• Experience in e-commerce or health technology.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tools to engineering workflows with attention to code quality, security, and maintainability.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote workplace flexibility through the “Wherever You Work Well” philosophy, with the option to work in-office, at home, or a combination.
• Generous paid time off, competitive pay, flexible benefits, and a workplace wellness program.
• RRSP matching, training budget, and company-wide learning initiatives.
• Discounts on hirify.global products.
• People-first culture focused on curiosity, collaboration, trust, inclusion, learning, and impact.
• Employment offers are contingent on background checks conducted under applicable Canadian and U.S. laws; AI tools support parts of hiring, while final decisions are made by people.

Hiring process

• Apply directly through the hirify.global careers page; application-status inquiries by phone or email are not handled.
• Accommodations are available upon request.