Product Engineering Lead (AI)

Location: Remote in EMEA; Germany/Munich preferred, with CET/CEST availability required. EMEA-based candidates, ideally in Germany or the UK.

Company

hirify.global builds security compliance software for European SMBs, automating evidence collection and certification workflows across tools such as AWS, Azure AD, Jira, GitLab, and GCP.

What you will do

• Ship meaningful product and AI features alongside the engineering team, remaining hands-on in the codebase.
• Own specifications, architecture, system design, technical decisions, and reviews for major projects.
• Improve development speed, tooling, review flow, testing, work allocation, and cycle time from specification to production.
• Strengthen engineering quality, security reviews, automation, and the zero-bug operating standard.
• Lead technical interviews and build a hiring process that operates with limited founder oversight.
• Mentor engineers through pairing and technical 1:1s, later taking on growth conversations and engineering management.

Requirements

• 8+ years as a software engineer at senior or staff level, including 1+ year as a technical lead for a team of 3+.
• Production experience shipping AI features such as retrieval, RAG, and agentic workflows, with an understanding of reliability on real customer data.
• Hands-on production experience with Claude Code and Cursor, including informed opinions on AI-assisted engineering workflows and technical debt.
• Ability to lead system design by writing specifications, owning architecture, and driving implementation to production.
• Strong object-oriented programming fundamentals and experience with Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, or equivalent technologies.
• Relational database design and SQL optimization experience.
• Experience interviewing engineering candidates.
• Experience building a product from zero to one at a startup or scaling a team through an uncertain growth phase.
• Product taste, high standards, direct feedback skills, proactive written communication, and willingness to participate in pair programming.
• Ability to work in the European time zone (CET/CEST); EMEA-based, ideally Germany or the UK.

Nice to have

• Some people management and technical interviewing experience.
• Experience designing a technical interview process from scratch.
• Previous experience at a fully remote company.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work with a virtual office in Gather and fewer than two hours of meetings per week for engineers.
• Small, temporary teams organized around problems, with asynchronous written communication and focused collaboration.
• AI-assisted development using Claude, Cursor, encoded engineering practices, and automated architecture and design-quality checks.
• Strong zero-bug culture: critical issues are fixed immediately, high-severity issues within 48 hours, and every bug has an owner.
• Competitive European-market salary, equity, €1,000 annual development budget, workspace and co-working support, comprehensive health insurance, and 26 vacation days plus local public holidays.
• Remote equipment including a MacBook, monitors, and headphones, plus an annual team retreat.

Hiring process

• Introductory talent call, interview with Grigory, technical interview, AI-assisted system-design and build session, and a leadership session with the founders.
• The AI-assisted build session lasts 1.5 hours and includes designing a real feature and building part of it with AI.