Engineering Director

Location: Remote within the United States. Candidates living near hirify.global offices may choose fully remote or hybrid work with in-office days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Occasional business travel is required.

Salary: $140,000–$175,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is a self-sustaining nonprofit focused on expanding educational and career opportunities through technology platforms serving students and educational programs.

What you will do

• Lead a team of approximately eight engineers building and operating student score reporting systems.
• Set team vision, priorities, structures, capacity plans, and development practices while coaching engineers and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Partner with product, data, architecture, business, and engineering leaders to clarify needs, align priorities, communicate technical concepts, and plan delivery.
• Guide architecture, cloud services, solution tradeoffs, Agile delivery, roadmap execution, technical debt reduction, and engineering standards.
• Monitor cost, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, and production issues across the service lifecycle.
• Advance AI-enabled capabilities and Generative AI practices supporting score reporting, insights, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and operating secure, data-intensive, cloud-based systems.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams delivering complex products, services, or platform capabilities at scale.
• Hands-on experience managing or owning web applications, ideally a user-facing portal, including authentication, access controls, web application firewalls, and hosting environments.
• Strong people-management experience covering coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Experience planning, prioritizing, and executing in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Solid technical judgment, including design reviews, architectural decisions, and collaboration with senior engineers.
• Experience with modern cloud architectures; familiarity with AI integrations is a plus.
• Ability to influence engineering strategy across teams and leadership levels, with strong communication, collaboration, and business-to-technical translation skills.
• Authorization to work in the United States; a mission-driven mindset, curiosity about emerging technologies, willingness to adopt AI-driven solutions, and commitment to learning, inclusion, feedback, impact, and continuous improvement.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first role within the United States, with optional hybrid work for employees near hirify.global offices.
• Occasional in-person business travel is required.
• Self-sustaining nonprofit offering mission-driven work, a supportive team, and a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
• Compensation is adjusted by location and based on qualifications, experience, impact, and market data, with transparent compensation discussions.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed immediately and remain open until the position is filled, for a minimum of five business days.
• The process generally includes resume and application submission, recruiter screening, hiring manager interview, performance exercise, panel interview, leadership conversation, and reference checks.