Engineering Manager (Platform - Identity)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Platform - Identity): Leading the Identity Accounts team, which powers every user, organization, and account at hirify.global, with an accent on authentication, authorization, security settings, and account management. Focus on driving roadmap execution, ensuring reliability, and building alignment with internal product groups.

Location: In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually.

Salary: $218,025 — $256,500 USD

Company

hirify.global's mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and site reliability through hiring, coaching, and career development.
• Drive roadmap execution across three focused sub-teams: Foundations, Users Platformization, and Settings & Account Management.
• Own reliability and operational excellence for mission-critical Tier-0/Tier-1 services, maintaining 99.99% uptime.
• Represent the team to internal product groups and key partners in Security, Risk, Compliance, and Design.
• Partner with Product and your Tech Lead to define strategic roadmaps and prioritize initiatives.
• Champion engineering excellence by driving code and design reviews and setting engineering standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years of engineering management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers.
• Proven track record shipping large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users in production.
• Technical fluency in coding, system design, API architecture, and reliability tradeoffs.
• Strong communicator who writes clearly, builds organizational alignment, and can represent the team effectively to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Experience building and scaling high-performing engineering teams through hiring, developing, and promoting talent.
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use generative AI tools and copilots in daily workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience in identity, authentication, authorization, or account management systems.
• Prior experience leading a Platform team or similar domain with high internal customer dependency.
• Familiarity with our stack: Go, gRPC, React, SpiceDB, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Datadog.
• Background building financial, high-reliability, or security systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Wellness Stipend and Mobile/Internet Reimbursement.
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.