Onsite Engineering Manager (Backend/Infrastructure)

Location: New York, United States; onsite in the New York office

Company

hirify.global builds a platform that health plans use for clinical decision-making at enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Lead a team of around 10 engineers through hiring, 1:1s, feedback, performance reviews, career development, and team growth.
• Plan and sequence delivery, maintain quality, and partner with product, clinical, and customer-facing teams on healthcare workflows, roadmaps, and specifications.
• Scope integrations and support deployments with enterprise customers' technical teams.
• Own system reliability, maintain a healthy on-call rotation, act as an incident escalation point, and drive postmortem follow-through.
• Review system designs, architecture decisions, and code while contributing hands-on through prototyping, debugging, and internal tooling.
• Shape engineering practices, team structure, hiring plans, and the growth of the engineering organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years as an engineering manager responsible for hiring, performance, and career development.
• Strong technical depth in backend and/or infrastructure, including APIs, integrations, data pipelines, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience owning system design decisions and operating production systems at scale.
• Comfort staying close to technical work and participating effectively in design reviews.
• Experience developing engineers into senior and lead roles, with direct, specific, and kind feedback.
• Sound delivery judgment, including scoping, sequencing, cutting scope, and shipping reliably.
• Experience with significant technical complexity, such as a scale-up, big-tech platform team, engineering-focused finance firm, or serious AWS environment.
• Must be willing to work onsite in the New York office; this is not a remote role.

Nice to have

• Healthcare experience.
• Experience leading an infrastructure migration such as the planned move away from CDKTF.

Culture & Benefits

• Player-coach role with approximately 70% people leadership and 30% hands-on technical work.
• Strong apprenticeship and coaching culture with opportunities to grow as a leader.
• Equity package and competitive, top-of-market salary.
• 100% covered health, dental, and vision insurance, plus commuter benefits and flexible PTO.
• Catered lunches, stocked kitchen, company laptop, learning and development budget, and team-building events.