Senior Manager, Software Engineering

TL;DR

Senior Manager, Software Engineering: Leading a team building and running backend services for hirify.global’s Centralized Leads Platform with an accent on reliability, observability and data-driven insights. Focus on modernizing a mission-critical platform and shaping the reliability and observability strategy.

Location: Remote (USA)

Salary: $206,700.00 - $330,300.00 annually (California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington state, and Washington DC)

Company

hirify.global is reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a high‑impact engineering team (~8 engineers) that builds and runs the backend services that take in customer inquiries and match them with the right real estate professionals and loan officers.
• Modernize a mission‑critical platform, replacing legacy systems with more reliable, observable workflows.
• Design end‑to‑end lead journeys in partnership with product, operations, and analytics.
• Shape and execute the reliability and observability strategy, defining the roadmap, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Use data and AI‑powered insights to improve routing and lead quality.
• Raise the bar on operational excellence, including on‑call practices, incident response, and runbooks.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing software engineering teams building backend or platform services.
• Technical leadership: Proven ability to understand business ambitions and align them with technical system capabilities.
• Systems design & architecture: Deep experience designing and operating scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend or data systems.
• Operational excellence: Strong track record running on‑call rotations, diagnosing and resolving critical production issues, improving observability and runbooks.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• People leadership & mentorship: Demonstrated success building and developing engineering talent.

Nice to have

• Experience working on platform or infrastructure teams that support multiple product surfaces and internal customers.
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven or workflow‑orchestrated systems and integrating with many upstream and downstream services.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices (for example, Datadog, Splunk, metrics, logs, tracing).
• Experience with public cloud platforms and container orchestration (such as AWS and Kubernetes).
• Prior exposure to marketplaces, lead routing, or CRM‑style systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote position: Employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company.
• U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.
• Competitive base salary and equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location.
• Innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.