House Engineering Manager (Cloud Diagrams)

TL;DR

House Engineering Manager (Cloud Diagrams): Leading a team of engineers to deliver on commitments by unblocking engineers, maintaining focus, and creating a high-performance environment. Focus on technical design discussions, ensuring alignment on architecture and implementation approaches, and driving the technical roadmap of the team.

Location: Remote in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Estonia, or Israel.

Company

hirify.global is a global technology company that works with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud to drive business growth and innovation.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 5 to 10 engineers, driving ceremonies and day-to-day operations.
• Ensure team members are unblocked and clear on delivery expectations and value.
• Manage team member performance, providing continuous feedback and mentoring.
• Support high-quality production releases by actively supporting the engineering release process and monitoring deployments.
• Lead and collaborate on technical design discussions, ensuring alignment on architecture and implementation approaches.
• Drive and own the technical roadmap, assessing technical debts and ensuring components are scaling and in a healthy state.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading an engineering team (typically 5+ engineers) in a delivery-focused environment (3+ Years).
• Past experience as a software engineer for at least 5+ years.
• Strong hands-on technical background with the ability to review code, guide design decisions, and dive deep when needed.
• Experience owning delivery and execution, including sprint planning, backlog management, and release readiness.
• AI-Driven mindset, defaulting to AI while ensuring quality and consistency.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate business context into clear technical direction for the team.
• Experience working in a SaaS, cloud-native, or distributed systems environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (backend services, APIs, real-time systems).
• Strong hands-on experience with React (complex state management, performance optimization, large-scale front-end applications).
• Deep understanding of modern web architecture, including SPA frameworks, client-server communication patterns, and browser performance considerations.
• Solid experience designing and operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Practical experience with Kubernetes (K8s), including cluster architecture, workload orchestration, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals.
• Clear understanding of network plumbing across clouds and VPCs.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or similar.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including consistency, availability, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong knowledge of system reliability, performance tuning, and production incident management.

Nice to have

• Experience in cloud native applications.
• Hands-on experience with more than a single cloud provider.
• Background in scaling teams, processes, or technical systems as the organization grows.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend
• Peer Recognition Program