Senior Director, Software Engineering (Annuities)

Location: Hybrid work from either the Belgrade, Serbia office or the London, UK office.

Company

hirify.global provides technology platforms and services supporting intellectual property operations and customer delivery worldwide.

What you will do

• Define and execute engineering strategy for the mission-critical IP Annuities & Renewals technology portfolio.
• Lead delivery of reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable software platforms and services.
• Drive modernization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and technology capabilities.
• Build, coach, and develop high-performing engineering leaders and teams, leading a geographically dispersed team of 75+ people.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, Security, Data, and Business stakeholders to prioritize investments and deliver measurable business value.
• Establish engineering standards for quality, reliability, security, observability, delivery predictability, and operational performance while overseeing workforce planning, budgets, vendors, and resource allocation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience in enterprise-scale environments.
• 5+ years of hands-on or leadership experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, APIs, automation, and software operations.
• Experience leading an engineering organization globally.
• Experience delivering business outcomes and managing multiple business-critical enterprise software platforms or services supporting thousands of customers across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Experience leading large-scale modernization programs involving legacy-platform migration, cloud adoption, distributed systems, or architectural transformation.
• Experience managing annual engineering budgets and/or vendor portfolios.

Nice to have

• Experience driving technology transformation, modernization, and delivery improvement initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, workflow orchestration, domain-driven design, event-driven architectures, and platform-based ecosystems.
• Exposure to complex business or financial platforms, system integration, portfolio alignment, risk management, and long-term platform sustainability.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a hybrid working model.
• Work from the Belgrade, Serbia or London, UK office.
• Work with globally distributed engineering teams supporting long-term business growth and global operations.
• Focus on reliable execution, platform modernization, engineering excellence, and scalable capabilities.