Manager – Engineering (Backend)

Location: Remote for applicants based in Canada

Base salary: $160,000–$170,000 CAD annually for Canadian residents.

Company

hirify.global Domains operates wholesale domain registration platforms and services under the Ascio, Enom, Hover, and OpenSRS brands, supporting the health and openness of the Internet’s domain name system.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, hire, and develop engineers through feedback, career development, and performance management.
• Own engineering planning, prioritization, technical delivery, release coordination, and blocker resolution.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production-code contributions.
• Design and maintain services, applications, RESTful APIs, database schemas, and integrations while coordinating cross-team dependencies.
• Drive reliability, performance, security, observability, maintainability, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and release-process improvements.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis, establish engineering goals and metrics, and communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including strong backend development, system design, and production-application experience, plus 2+ years of engineering management experience with direct people management, mentoring, and performance management.
• Strong experience with Python, Go, or similar backend languages, and designing RESTful APIs with frameworks such as FastAPI or Gin.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, reliable, and scalable services.
• Strong technical judgment, hands-on development, production-code contributions, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including explaining technical decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience managing engineering delivery, technical priorities, cross-team dependencies, and Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted software development tools with appropriate validation and security practices; experience with automated testing, continuous integration, Git, modern development workflows, production troubleshooting, incident response, and geographically distributed engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other message brokers.
• Knowledge of DNS, EPP, RDAP, or other Internet protocols.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications and services or developing transaction-oriented platforms.
• AWS or other cloud platforms and container technologies such as Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenAPI, API security, networking, Linux, and infrastructure operations.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture based on respect, trust, flexibility, fairness, equality, and inclusion.
• Remote-first work model, with this position restricted to applicants based in Canada.
• Competitive total rewards and generous benefits.
• AI-enabled tools are used in recruitment, while final hiring decisions are made by people.
• Reasonable accommodation is available for candidates with disabilities during recruitment and employment.