Engineering Manager (CoE) (Cloud/API)

Location: Remote in Poland or Ukraine

Company

hirify.global is an engineering and technology services company delivering cloud-native, API, and other software solutions for clients.

What you will do

• Lead engineering teams and align delivery with business objectives, stakeholder expectations, and contractual commitments.
• Own end-to-end IT project delivery, including scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, resources, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and quality.
• Apply Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery approaches according to project needs and commercial agreements.
• Coordinate requirements, architecture, design, engineering governance, technical solutions, and cross-functional delivery streams.
• Manage client communication, status reporting, escalations, change control, financial tracking, and formal project closure.
• Develop engineers and technical leaders through feedback, performance reviews, coaching, career planning, capacity management, and conflict resolution.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or IT delivery, including 2+ years in leadership or technical project management.
• Experience in engineering management, end-to-end IT project delivery, people leadership, workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and team building.
• Experience managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, stakeholders, effort estimates, forecasts, and cost control.
• Understanding of Time and Materials, Fixed Price, and dedicated team arrangements, including statements of work, delivery commitments, acceptance criteria, and change control.
• Knowledge of SDLC methodologies, quality assurance practices, Agile and traditional project management approaches, and project tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Microsoft Project.
• Proficiency in cloud-native architectures, microservices, modern development frameworks, and at least one of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, containerization, and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with security, data privacy, regulatory compliance, performance metrics, KPIs, analytics, and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, problem-solving, abstract reasoning, decision-making, coaching, performance management, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement for candidates in Poland or Ukraine.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering environment.
• Focus on sustainable delivery, employee well-being, career development, succession planning, and technical leadership growth.
• Work involves client collaboration, cross-functional teams, engineering governance, secure customer data management, and contractual delivery processes.