Senior Engineering Manager (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (Fintech): Leading a backend engineering team to build and optimize hirify.global’s subscription lifecycle and billing infrastructure, with an accent on ensuring reliability, accuracy, and scalability. Focus on modernizing the billing platform, simplifying architecture, and ensuring data correctness for monetization state.

Location: Remote from specific Canadian provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan).

Salary: $204,900—$277,200 CAD

Company

hirify.global simplifies how people work together by providing innovative cloud-based and artificial intelligence solutions for seamless file sharing, access, and collaboration.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and scale a backend engineering team focused on billing and subscription infrastructure.
• Set the technical and operational strategy for billing systems, ensuring resilience, accuracy, and compliance.
• Drive system modernization by unifying legacy code and enforcing platform-wide SLOs.
• Partner with Finance and Data teams to deliver reconciled, audit-ready revenue and subscription data.
• Own the north-star metric for usage-to-bill latency and ensure data correctness across systems.
• Establish processes and automation for reconciliation, error handling, and data quality validation.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team.
• Minimum 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience.
• Proven experience building and operating distributed backend systems with high reliability and correctness.
• Strong technical background in Java, Python, or similar backend languages, with experience in service-oriented architectures and data pipelines.
• Familiarity with AWS, SQL/NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Postgres), and event-driven or batch processing frameworks (Kafka, Spark, Databricks).
• Demonstrated ability to manage system migrations, large-scale refactors, or platform unification initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills and a track record of effective collaboration with cross-functional teams including Finance, PM, and Data.
• Deep focus on operational excellence — incident response, monitoring, metrics, and SLOs.

Nice to have

• Experience in billing, payments, or financial systems, including invoicing, reconciliation, or revenue recognition flows.
• Background in high-scale data or workflow orchestration systems.
• Understanding of SOC/SOX compliance or financial audit processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Virtual First company model, combining the autonomy of a distributed workplace with human connection.
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan.
• Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and Volunteer Time Off.
• Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance, and Business Travel Protection.
• Perks Allowance to be used on wellness, learning and development, food, or groceries.
• Parental benefits including Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits.