Engineering Manager (SaaS)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (SaaS): Building a new, scalable payments and e-commerce services platform that will serve as the core engine for 70,000+ entrepreneurs with an accent on defining the strategy for how new services will interact with, and decouple from, an existing Ruby on Rails monolith. Focus on spearheading the architecture and delivery of a new, public-facing API and championing SaaS principles to ensure scalability and security.

Location: Remote (within Germany)

Salary: A personal Training & Development budget of € 1,500 per year.

Company

hirify.global offers an easy and efficient way for everyone to create and sell digital products and online courses via a cloud-based SaaS platform.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, guiding them through complex technical challenges.
• Spearhead the architecture and delivery of a new, public-facing API, defining patterns for decoupling logic from the core RoR application.
• Contribute to the discussion and implementation of a new, secure authentication and authorization layer.
• Ensure that everything your team builds is scalable, secure, and designed for a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Manage the technical roadmap and balance immediate business goals with the long-term architectural vision.

Requirements

• Have experience navigating the trade-offs between greenfield development and legacy integration.
• Have a strong track record as an Engineering Manager, with proven experience in people management and a passion for developing talent.
• Have deep, hands-on experience in the SaaS world and what it takes to build, secure, and scale a publicly available API.
• Must have a strong background in Ruby on Rails and a firm grasp of distributed systems and modern authentication technologies.
• Be a great communicator who loves to "bounce ideas" around and can translate complex technical concepts.

Nice to have

• Experience in the payments, e-commerce, or "monetization" domain.

Culture & Benefits

• 30 vacation days.
• Responsibility and trust from day 1.
• Individual coaching and further training to support you in your development.
• A Culture of equity and Inclusion where you are appreciated for the person you are.
• Employee discounts at numerous companies.
• Pension Program with company match.