Senior Engineering Manager (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Manager (AI): Leading a team to design and build scalable, distributed backend systems and frontend components for an AI-native platform with an accent on performance, reliability, and multi-tenancy at scale. Focus on driving technical excellence through distributed systems best practices, API-first design, and CI/CD while mentoring engineers.

Location: This role is based in London, UK

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native platform called Computer, an AI teammate that unifies data, offers powerful search, reasoning, and actions through extensions for teams and customers.

What you will do

• Lead your team to design and build scalable, distributed backend systems and frontend components taking ownership of clarity and execution.
• Stay hands-on – contribute to architecture, design reviews, and implementation of critical components.
• Be accountable for customer delight, ensuring systems deliver performance, reliability, and simplicity at scale.
• Mentor and coach engineers to solve complex scalability, performance, and multi-tenancy challenges while growing technical depth and ownership.
• Drive technical excellence through distributed systems best practices, API-first design, and CI/CD to ensure high deployment velocity and reliability.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success to incorporate customer and market needs, align priorities, and drive clarity.

Requirements

• 10–15 years software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years leading teams delivering high-performance, reliable, multi-tenant SaaS backends with frontend components.
• Expertise in defining clean interfaces, distributed systems, databases, message buses (Kafka preferred), and modern cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless).
• Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or Python.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• English: B2 required.

Nice to have

• Deep understanding of performance tuning and optimization in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams building GenAI agentic reasoning engines that leverage memory, skills, and tools for complex task completion.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge AI-native platform technologies with individual autonomy and purpose.
• Company culture emphasizes transparency, honesty, and doing the right thing for customers, company, and employees.
• Focused on fostering a culture of hunger, humility, honesty, and heart.

Hiring process

• Shortlisted candidates will undergo a Background Verification (BGV).
• Any offer made will be subject to successful completion of the BGV.