Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI): Leading and building a fast engineering team in a high-velocity, high-ownership environment with an accent on coaching, mentoring, and unblocking engineers. Focus on making architectural and security calls fast and building best-in-class developer experience.

Location: Remote (+/- 3 GMT). Must be based in the UK.

Company

hirify.global is a company that challenges problems, not people, and biases hard toward impact.

What you will do

• Set the bar for engineering velocity by coaching, mentoring, and unblocking the team.
• Make architectural and security calls, balancing speed with long-term resilience.
• Build and own best-in-class developer experience, tooling, and workflows.
• Monitor and protect reliability and SLAs while moving at startup speed.
• Partner with product and design to deliver rapid, end-to-end iterations.
• Establish a culture where iteration is celebrated and perfectionism is challenged.

Requirements

• Engineering leadership experience coaching engineers in high-velocity, high-pressure environments.
• Deep technical expertise with architecture instincts and security knowledge.
• Experience shipping product in 0→1 or hyper-growth contexts.
• Belief in iteration over perfection and getting value in front of users quickly.
• Bullish on AI and always looking for ways to push velocity through AI-assisted workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Build in public with open source, moving fast with shared context.
• Challenge problems, not people; no blame, just solutions.
• Collaborate independently but win as a team and with the community.
• Bias hard toward impact, shipping the wrong thing quickly to learn rather than polishing what nobody needs.