Software Development Manager (Agentic AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is developing Alexa for Shopping, an AI-powered shopping experience within its Stores business.

What you will do

• Shape the strategic direction and vision for agentic shopping experiences.
• Lead Software Development Engineers building scalable AI- and LLM-powered systems and customer experiences.
• Provide technical leadership, career guidance, and day-to-day support to the engineering team.
• Partner with engineering, science, design, product, and program management teams to define requirements and execution plans.
• Drive operational excellence, engineering best practices, reliability, and high-performing delivery.
• Manage bottlenecks and escalations while balancing business needs with technical constraints.

Requirements

• Experience managing Software Engineers developing complex, scalable software systems successfully delivered to customers.
• Experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience delivering products in fast-paced, multidisciplinary, distributed-responsibility, and ambiguous environments.
• Knowledge of engineering practices across the full software, hardware, and network development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, builds, testing, certification, and live-site operations.
• Experience leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams.

Nice to have

• Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, product features, technical designs, and strategy.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, coaching, and managing Software Engineers.
• Experience building products with large language models, generative AI, or agentic AI systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an agile environment with product, engineering, science, design, and program management partners.
• Build products with high visibility and strategic importance within hirify.global Stores.
• hirify.global promotes an inclusive culture and provides workplace accommodations during the hiring process when needed.
• Equal-opportunity employment and non-discrimination policies apply.