Engineering Manager, Ui Platform (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, UI Platform (AI): Leading the team responsible for the reliability, latency, developer velocity, and common components across Claude.ai's UI surfaces with an accent on backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs that power client applications. Focus on shaping the developer experience and platform foundations for one of the most rapidly evolving AI products in the world.

Location: Hybrid, staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Company

hirify.global’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the UI Platform team, setting technical direction for reliability, performance, and developer experience across all Claude.ai surfaces.
• Own the foundational systems that product teams depend on: shared components, BFF APIs, build and deploy pipelines, observability, and performance infrastructure.
• Design and evolve the API layer that powers Claude.ai's client applications, ensuring clean abstractions and reliable contracts for product teams.
• Drive improvements to developer velocity—reducing friction, improving tooling, and enabling teams to ship features faster and more safely.
• Establish and maintain high standards for latency, reliability, and quality across the platform.
• Partner closely with product engineering, infrastructure, and leadership to align platform investments with product priorities.

Requirements

• Have 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time spent building platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure for consumer-facing products.
• Have 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing and growing teams in high-growth environments.
• Have deep expertise in modern web development stacks (React, Next.js, TypeScript) and experience designing APIs that serve frontend applications.
• Are passionate about developer experience and have a track record of building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive.
• Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking, staying hands-on while also setting long-term direction.
• We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Building and scaling platforms for multiple surfaces (web, mobile, desktop, extensions) with shared infrastructure.
• Designing BFF architectures and API patterns that balance flexibility with consistency.
• Performance optimization and latency reduction in consumer-facing applications.
• CI/CD, build systems, and deployment automation at scale.
• Observability and monitoring systems (metrics, logging, tracing).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
• We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas!