Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Remote, US; flexible remote/hybrid work is available, with an office in Dallas for employees who prefer an office setting.

Salary: $180K–$205K, plus equity; starting compensation may vary by geographic location, experience, and skills.

Company

hirify.global is a vertical technology platform for life insurers, providing SaaS infrastructure that modernizes the life insurance value chain through AI, automation, and faster product launches.

What you will do

• Lead technical direction for configuration-layer services, enrollment workflow engines, and event-sourced domain services.
• Drive repeatable, configuration-based solutions that reduce the cost and delivery time of carrier implementations.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Delivery Management, Underwriting, Compliance, and other teams to resolve dependencies and define requirements early.
• Own delivery commitments to carrier partners, including UAT handoff dates, status reporting, quality, system health, and SLAs.
• Hire, mentor, retain, and develop a team of 6–10 engineers, including progression of senior engineers into staff and technical leadership roles.
• Lead adoption of AI development tools and AI-first delivery practices, review architecture and code, and occasionally ship software.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 6+ years of professional software development experience and 2+ years of engineering management experience, or equivalent experience leading software engineers.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and microservices, including event-driven and event-sourced architectures.
• Experience with Golang and/or Python backend services, API design using gRPC and REST, asynchronous messaging, PostgreSQL schema design, data modeling, and query performance.
• Cloud platform experience, with preference for Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.
• Experience across software design, planning, delivery, continuous delivery, release strategy, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to reason about frontend composition, data platforms, and infrastructure, negotiate interfaces, contribute to code, and engage in architecture decisions.
• Advocacy for automated testing and test-driven development, including testing configuration and rules at scale.
• Proven ability to define metrics, meet committed dates and SLAs, hire, mentor, and retain engineers, and communicate complex systems and trade-offs clearly.
• Experience introducing AI development tools into a team’s daily workflow with measurable results.

Nice to have

• Experience in life insurance, annuities, or another regulated industry.
• Experience delivering implementations for enterprise or carrier partners under contractual dates.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity and competitive compensation.
• Flexible paid time off, parental leave, and policies supporting work-life balance.
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexible work-from-home and remote options, plus access to a Dallas office.
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.