Engineering Manager (Ai)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (AI): Leading and growing a high-performing engineering team in Lisbon, owning the reliability, scalability, and correctness of critical authentication, governance, and event-driven systems with an accent on secure and scalable backend systems. Focus on driving best practices in architecture, observability, and incident management.

Location: Hybrid - Lisbon, Portugal

Company

hirify.global is the leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps leading brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box create dynamic, individualized experiences at scale.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team in Lisbon, fostering strong ownership and operational excellence.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and correctness of critical authentication, governance, and event-driven systems.
• Partner closely with Product, Security, Billing, and Infrastructure teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
• Coach engineers to make sound technical trade-offs without becoming the bottleneck.
• Drive best practices in architecture, observability, and incident management.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Engineering Management experience in a SaaS or platform environment.
• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems (JVM ecosystem preferred).
• Experience operating production systems at scale, including on-call and incident response.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Redis, AWS, and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries & meaningful equity
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life/Risk Assurance
• Meal Allowance: 8.55€ per day
• Paid Annual Leave (22 days)
• Global Lifestyle Reimbursement Account
• Paid Sabbatical
• Complete laptop workstation