Engineering Manager (Fintech)

Location: San Francisco, CA; in office five days a week

Company

hirify.global builds payment infrastructure for AI agents, connecting agents with funding sources and payment methods while providing intent verification, spending controls, transaction records, and auditable money movement. The company is a small San Francisco team with deep payments and infrastructure experience and has raised $50 million from Accel, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Anthropic.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end execution for the team, from planning and development through shipping and operating APIs, SDKs, ledgers, and transaction infrastructure.
• Spend approximately half of the time writing production code, taking on complex features, reviewing pull requests, and setting standards for testing, observability, and code quality.
• Own correctness and reliability for money movement, including idempotency, reconciliation, incident response, on-call, security, tooling, vendors, and cloud costs.
• Partner with the product manager to scope and deliver the roadmap, track capacity, and identify delivery risks.
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while building a high-ownership engineering practice and structured hiring process.

Requirements

• 7+ years as a software engineer and engineering manager in payments or fintech, including direct management of engineers who shipped production systems moving real money.
• Deep knowledge of ledgers, idempotency, reconciliation, card and bank rails, and PCI and KYC compliance constraints.
• Hands-on production backend engineering experience, with clear reasoning about distributed systems and data consistency and active participation in design and code review.
• Fluent use of AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor; familiarity with current models and tooling and the ability to improve productivity without reducing quality.
• Demonstrated execution at startup pace: delivering roadmaps on time with a product partner, cutting scope without cutting quality, and communicating delivery risks clearly.
• Experience hiring strong engineers, providing direct feedback, building career paths, and supporting promotions.

Nice to have

• Experience managing engineers at a Series A or earlier startup.
• Experience building agent, stablecoin, or machine-to-machine payment systems.

Culture & Benefits

• High-autonomy, player-coach role with approximately half the time spent coding and half leading people.
• Culture of trust, high ownership, regular direct feedback, and individual growth plans.
• Engineering practice focused on reliable, on-time delivery, security, testing, observability, and code quality.
• Full-time, in-office work in San Francisco five days per week.

Hiring process

• Reports to the CEO.
• Participate in a structured interview loop and help close and onboard new engineers.