Software Engineering Manager II (AI)

Location: Singapore, Singapore; 5-day in-office arrangement

Company

hirify.global is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, providing food delivery, mobility, financial, and other consumer services through technology and AI.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, including setting expectations and growth plans.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Operations to define priorities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Own engineering roadmap planning and delivery while managing dependencies and risks.
• Work with senior engineers on technical direction, architecture, and engineering trade-offs.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, security, observability, and cost efficiency of team-owned systems.
• Establish engineering practices for design reviews, testing, deployment, incident response, continuous improvement, hiring, and talent development.

Requirements

• At least eight years of software engineering experience, including designing and operating production systems at scale.
• At least two years of experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating LLM and generative AI solutions, including model evaluation, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, and production monitoring.
• Understanding of AI risks including hallucinations, data privacy, security, reliability, latency, and cost.
• Strong foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience delivering complex initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience coaching engineers, managing performance, and supporting career development.
• Sound judgement in balancing product delivery, engineering quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical and AI trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with Product, Data Science, Analytics, Operations, and engineering teams on fulfilment technology supporting millions of transactions across Southeast Asia.
• Build an inclusive environment based on clarity, psychological safety, and meaningful ownership.
• Support the mission of economically empowering people across Southeast Asia through technology and AI.