Engineering Manager (AI, Commerce)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI, Commerce): Leading a team to build and scale an AI-native commerce stack, including payments infrastructure and agentic commerce capabilities with an accent on architecting reliable, compliant financial systems. Focus on designing seamless in-conversation transactions and shaping future monetization strategies.

Location: Hybrid (San Francisco, New York City)

Salary: $250K – $325K USD

Company

hirify.global is building the foundation for how commerce works in an AI-native world.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team building payments, billing, and commerce systems.
• Own the technical roadmap for subscription infrastructure and payment integrations.
• Drive architecture decisions for agentic commerce within conversational experiences.
• Collaborate with product, finance, and external partners to ship new commerce capabilities.
• Shape future monetization strategies as the company expands beyond existing revenue models.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture focused on reliability, velocity, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including recruiting, growing, and retaining high-caliber talent.
• 5+ years of engineering experience on payments or commerce systems at consumer-scale traffic and reliability.
• Deep experience with Stripe, PayPal, or similar payment platforms.
• Strong organizational skills for managing and delivering parallel technical projects.
• Track record of shipping reliable, compliant financial systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with building or integrating with 3rd party to support modern payment rails (ACH, open banking, real-time payments) and multi-rail architectures.
• Experience supporting various monetization strategies including subscriptions, ads, and marketplace.
• Experience dealing with fraud prevention solutions and systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care accounts for U.S. employees.
• Tailored comprehensive benefits program for international full-time employees outside the U.S.