Engineering Manager - Storefront (Payments)

Location: 100% remote within LatAm; the team operates primarily within US business hours. The posting also states a conflicting US residency requirement for employment.

No salary specified.

Company

hirify.global provides an integrated education technology platform for K–12 schools and districts, including websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the storefront engineering team, including hiring, development, regular 1:1s, direct feedback, and the team’s operating rhythm.
• Own delivery sequencing across the modernization effort and the platform scaling roadmap.
• Partner with senior technical owners on architecture and solution decisions.
• Drive resolution of production-scale, performance, reliability, logging, and observability issues.
• Scale the platform to support significantly more payments traffic and use AI-assisted development tools during modernization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years of hands-on technical experience and 1+ year as a people manager with 3+ direct reports; prior Engineering Manager experience on a production, revenue-critical platform is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience turning strong individual contributors into a functioning, decisive team and managing a remote team operating primarily within US business hours.
• Experience modernizing a VM-based .NET system toward a cloud-native architecture and scaling a production system for significantly higher transaction or traffic volume.
• Strong technical credibility, including the ability to read the codebase, reason about backend architecture and system design trade-offs, and make or validate technical decisions.
• Strong backend fundamentals with a .NET and SQL Server stack, or the ability to ramp quickly; knowledge of relational database design and operations, including schema design, query-performance tuning, and locking behavior at production scale.
• Familiarity with running and debugging production services in a cloud environment, preferably Azure.
• Expertise in at least one programming language, ideally .NET, Java, or Python.
• Experience with an observability platform such as Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, or a comparable tool; deep experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or comparable AI-assisted development tools.

Nice to have

• Specific experience with .NET or Java and deep Azure experience.
• Hands-on PCI-DSS compliance experience for payment workflows.
• Payments or fintech experience, particularly with high-transaction-volume platforms.
• Experience modernizing, scaling, or migrating a legacy .NET system.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work is offered, subject to the stated geographic and residency conditions.
• Work closely with a US-based team during primarily US business hours.
• Collaborative culture focused on partnership, purpose, support, and professional development.
• Competitive benefits and professional development opportunities are provided.