Engineering Manager

Location: Hybrid at hirify.global HQ in Athlone, Ireland

Company

hirify.global partners with telecommunications and financial services organizations to modernize legacy systems, migrate mission-critical platforms to the cloud, and develop AI-driven automation across the EU, UK, and US.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and support engineering teams while promoting high performance, collaboration, ownership, wellbeing, retention, and continuous improvement.
• Provide structured feedback through 1:1s, performance conversations, and stakeholder-informed development planning.
• Partner with Delivery Directors, technical leads, Account Managers, and client stakeholders to support successful engagements and agreed quality standards.
• Maintain Individual Development Plans, support career progression, and coordinate learning, training, and upskilling initiatives.
• Champion teamwork, professionalism, learning, inclusion, and hirify.global ways of working.
• Help define role requirements, participate in recruitment and interviews, and support onboarding and integration of new hires.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing and developing software engineering or technical teams.
• Strong people management skills, including coaching, feedback, and conflict resolution.
• Technical background with sufficient understanding of software delivery to support and challenge engineering teams; coding and architecture ownership are not required.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery and experience supporting client-facing delivery environments.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, organisation, prioritisation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience supporting career progression, identifying capability gaps, and enabling learning initiatives.
• Recruitment and interviewing experience.
• Strong alignment with hirify.global values and a people-first culture.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment with a hybrid working arrangement.
• People-first environment focused on employee wellbeing, growth, retention, inclusion, and belonging.
• Learning and development supported through coaching, L&D programmes, training, and upskilling initiatives.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, opportunity, and engagement with local communities in Ireland.