Engineering Manager (Fintech)

Location: Toronto, Canada; hybrid work with office attendance 2–3 times per week

Company

hirify.global provides digital financial products and services to more than 140 million customers, using proprietary technology and data at scale to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency.

What you will do

• Lead one or more teams of 8–10 software engineers.
• Manage individual contributors through feedback, 1:1s, team meetings, performance support, and career development.
• Deliver distributed systems at scale and contribute to software architecture decisions.
• Align stakeholders around team vision, goals, and metrics.
• Improve team processes and organizational practices while fostering teamwork and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams, ideally with a background as a software engineer or software architect.
• Experience with people management, including performance assessment, hiring, and career growth support.
• Experience leading agile teams and familiarity with relevant ceremonies, metrics, and processes.
• Strong technical understanding sufficient to participate in architecture discussions and explain complex technical projects to non-engineers.
• Advanced English required for participation in a global team.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with hirify.global's engineering technologies and practices, including Clojure, Finagle, functional programming, hexagonal architecture, Kafka, AWS, Datomic, DynamoDB, Prometheus, and Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Process-light organization with small, independent teams and an emphasis on human interaction.
• Hybrid work model with office attendance at least twice weekly on strategic collaboration days.
• Health and life insurance, extended parental leave, vacations of 15 workdays, and a work-from-home allowance.
• Potential equity participation and Nu Language benefits.
• Relocation assistance package, if applicable.