Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Location: US IL CHI 222 STE 1700, United States of America

Salary: $152,280–$258,890 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and digital transformation platforms for financial institutions, including digital lending and embedded finance solutions.

What you will do

• Create and execute engineering roadmaps aligned with client needs, product strategy, and technology investments.
• Lead software engineering and quality engineering teams across planning, design, development, testing, release, production support, and continuous improvement.
• Own delivery and operational outcomes, including quality, reliability, security, release readiness, dependencies, client impact, and engineering productivity.
• Partner with product, architecture, service delivery, cybersecurity, risk, and senior leadership to resolve complex issues and make investment decisions.
• Develop an accountable engineering organization through performance expectations, coaching, career development, succession planning, and leadership development.

Requirements

• 7–10 years of experience as a technical leader.
• At least 10 years of experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails development.
• Experience engaging directly with clients to understand business requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Experience leading managers, technical leaders, software engineers, and quality engineers responsible for enterprise applications or platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services infrastructure and cloud architecture.
• Deep knowledge of the end-to-end loan lifecycle, including origination, underwriting, and servicing on scalable enterprise platforms.
• Experience integrating third-party financial platforms, including CreditKarma, Pagaya, and LendingTree.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, Agile delivery, DevSecOps, testing, release management, observability, and production support in a Ruby on Rails environment.
• Experience with monitoring and error-tracking tools such as Sentry, and with creating and maintaining developer tools for SDLC automation.
• Ability to balance product delivery, platform sustainability, technical debt, security, regulatory obligations, and client commitments.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills for explaining technical strategy, risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, and outcomes to technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Financial services experience involving client reporting, data governance, PCI, audit, cybersecurity, or risk management.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted development, test automation, or engineering productivity practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to shape technology strategy for business-critical financial services platforms.
• Leadership scope across enterprise modernization, cloud data, analytics, security, quality, and operational excellence.
• Career development tools, resources, and opportunities to grow technical and organizational leadership capabilities.
• Collaborative, flexible, and respectful work environment with opportunities to support communities and charitable causes.
• For positions located in the US, a conditional offer requires a drug test.