Engineering Manager, Conversational AI

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada; hybrid, with in-person collaboration in the Toronto office Monday–Wednesday

Salary: CA$154K–CA$205K annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered global work platform for hiring, paying, and managing employees in more than 185 countries.

What you will do

• Lead the Conversational AI engineering team developing Alfie, a conversational AI assistant.
• Build, review, and ship APIs, data models, services, and conversational interfaces alongside the team.
• Help redesign planning, development, review, and delivery around AI-native workflows using Claude Code and other LLM harnesses.
• Partner with product management, data teams, and the AI Architect to turn product goals and technical direction into an executable roadmap.
• Ensure scalable architecture using React, TypeScript, and AWS while maintaining observability, stability, and rigorous quality standards.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers through human-led and AI-augmented practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of formal engineering management experience leading a team of engineers.
• Experience changing team practices through AI tooling, including the ability to explain which previous practices were removed and why.
• Ability to operate backend microservices in TypeScript or Python with Postgres and AWS, deployed on Kubernetes.
• Experience designing clean contracts and APIs that support agentic workflows.
• Hands-on experience with LLM-based and agentic systems, including prompt design, tool or function calling, multi-step agent reasoning, and evaluation.
• Experience delivering customer-facing SaaS products with metrics-driven growth, conversion, and user experience focus.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and AI-related trade-offs as actionable plans for leadership and cross-functional partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid in-person collaboration is expected in the Toronto office Monday–Wednesday.
• Flexible time off.
• Parental leave.
• Health and dental insurance where applicable.
• Retirement savings and an employee incentive plan.
• Equal opportunity employment and an inclusive workplace.