Director, Lead Engineer & Architect (Full Stack / Blockchain)

Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global is a global financial services company developing technology-driven solutions for the financial system.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of full-stack engineers as a hands-on player-manager, setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.
• Design and build front-end and back-end components integrated with smart contracts and the ledger layer.
• Maintain high standards for clean, tested, and maintainable production code.
• Drive automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, code review, observability, and secure-by-design practices.

Requirements

• Extensive financial services technology experience, including senior technical leadership of complex, business-critical platforms.
• Hands-on architect and engineer experience with production coding, combined with leading and developing engineering teams.
• Broad full-stack experience across several back-end languages and frameworks and several front-end frameworks, with sound judgement in selecting and evolving tools.
• Deep knowledge of distributed and microservice architectures, modular front-end architectures, reactive and responsive UX design, and API-first design.
• Experience designing for high availability, scalability, and resilience, including containerised and cloud-native deployment.
• Strong command of modern CI/CD, automated testing strategies, and DevOps practices.
• Experience in Agile environments and the ability to balance delivery pressure with long-term architectural health.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with credibility to influence senior technology and business leaders.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on employee growth, success, and engineering excellence.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs.
• Flexible global resources and tools supporting health, resilience, and financial goals.
• Generous paid leave, including paid volunteer time.
• Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.