Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Recommendations & Ranking)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid working with two days per week on the Berlin campus

Company

hirify.global operates a global local-delivery platform across around 65 countries and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

What you will do

• Lead engineering squads through engineering managers using clear priorities, delegation and shared success measures.
• Co-own the domain vision with Product and turn tribe goals into an 18-month roadmap.
• Coach and hire engineering managers, support performance reviews and scale leadership capacity.
• Sponsor migration from legacy recommendation services to a unified global platform, including shared components, model reuse and technical KPIs.
• Coordinate cross-squad delivery, resolve dependencies and improve delivery efficiency through metrics.
• Maintain engineering practices, reliability and incident learning, budget oversight and security remediation within SLA.

Requirements

• Several years of engineering leadership, including managing managers or leading three or more squads, with demonstrated ability to scale impact through others.
• Hands-on production experience with recommendation, ranking, search or personalisation systems, including real-time inference, model serving, feature pipelines and experimentation.
• Experience with a stack such as Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP and event streaming.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business problems and tribe goals into realistic multi-quarter roadmaps and align stakeholders.
• Experience growing engineers into managers, attracting talent and handling performance management at domain scale.
• Experience measuring and improving delivery and technical KPIs, tracking a budget with a senior leader and defining security approaches for production services.
• Ability to partner as an equal with Product, Data Science, Platform and Operations, with clear written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience migrating legacy services to a shared platform across multiple brands or markets.
• Experience with feature stores, vector databases or large-scale A/B experimentation platforms.
• Background in search, ranking, personalisation or relevance engineering in food delivery, e-commerce or marketplaces.
• Experience applying LLMs and agentic tooling to engineering workflows and customer-facing products.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with face-to-face collaboration at the Berlin campus two days per week.
• 27 days of holiday, plus an additional day in the second and third years of service.
• €1,000 educational budget, language courses, parental support and Udemy Business access.
• Health checkups, meditation and gym benefits, life and accident insurance, corporate pension and public-transport discounts.
• Employee share purchase plan, sabbatical bank, digital meal vouchers and food vouchers.
• Relocation information and support for moving to Berlin.

Hiring process

• Apply through hirify.global’s careers process and prepare for interviews using the provided interview guidance.
• Accessibility accommodations can be requested during the interview process.