Senior Engineering Manager, DC Buying (AI)

Location: Remote in the U.S.; employees must reside in one of the listed states: AL, AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, UT, VA, or WI. San Francisco, California is also listed.

Salary: $203,745–$275,655 USD annually, plus meaningful early-stage equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds AI solutions for grocery retailers to improve fresh-food buying, reduce waste, and maximize sales.

What you will do

• Lead, hire, develop, and retain a senior team of product engineers while setting technical and performance standards.
• Own the DC Buying engineering roadmap with product, design, data engineering, and applied science partners.
• Review architecture, manage technical debt, and coordinate shared tooling with platform, data, and AI engineering leaders.
• Turn business goals into sequenced plans, make and communicate commitments, and drive decisions to clarity.
• Own product reliability, on-call health, and data quality for a production system used by grocery distribution center buyers.
• Build a customer-focused culture in which engineers and scientists own problems and collaborate directly with customers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Experience developing, scaling, and supporting mission-critical production products.
• Technical range across front-end, back-end, data pipelines, and applied science, with sufficient depth to engage across domains.
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing performance while building a culture of ownership.
• Clear, direct communication with stakeholders, executives, and customers.
• Comfort with ambiguity and growth-stage pressure, including rapidly re-planning when priorities change.
• Daily use of AI-native development practices and interest in keeping the team at the leading edge.

Nice to have

• Supply chain, retail, or grocery experience, especially demand forecasting, replenishment, or inventory optimization.
• Experience shipping forecasting, optimization, or recommendation products used daily by operators.
• Experience taking a product from early design partners to production at enterprise customers.
• Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Databricks, and Azure.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, vision, mental health, and counseling support, with most health premiums covered.
• Benefits include equity, a 401(k) with company match, home-office support, and flexible coworking access.
• Annual professional development budget plus monthly wellness and telecommunications stipends.
• Flexible paid time off and support for working from home or a local office.
• This position is not eligible for company sponsorship.