Engineering Manager - Search (LLM)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Search) (Ai Engineering): Leading a squad responsible for foundational search components of the customer search experience with an accent on conversational search or LLM-powered search interfaces. Focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable services in Java and partnering with product and data science to deliver impact.

Location: Must join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

Company

hirify.global is the world’s pioneering local delivery platform with a mission to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door.

What you will do

• Own team health, engagement, and inclusion, ensuring every engineer has growth opportunities and clear career paths.
• Lead your team in delivering high-quality, maintainable services in a Java.
• Maintain the reliability of services through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Translate product discovery goals and relevance targets into actionable engineering work with clear priorities.

Requirements

• Strong People Leadership: You have experience mentoring engineers, fostering inclusion, giving structured feedback, and building a positive, productive team environment.
• You are comfortable working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python who build search infrastructure.
• You are experienced with monitoring, on-call practices, and incident management—and you understand what it takes to safely roll out changes, and detect regressions in production.

Culture & Benefits

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service.
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.