Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering)

TL;DR

Manager, Software Engineering (Resilience Engineering) (Fintech): Leading the Resilience Engineering team to ensure production system reliability through proactive validation and chaos engineering with an accent on production load testing and failure injection. Focus on designing safe experimentation platforms, implementing robust guardrails, and eliminating systemic weaknesses in distributed systems.

Location: Remote (Must be based in the United States)

Salary: $200,000 - $275,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, providing consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest.

What you will do

• Define and drive the vision for resilience engineering, treating production load testing and chaos engineering as first-class practices.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers building platforms and tooling for safe production experimentation.
• Own the design and evolution of platforms for controlled fault injection, incorporating isolation boundaries and automated rollbacks.
• Build systems providing end-to-end observability, traceability, and auditability for all resilience experiments.
• Partner with infrastructure, product, and security leadership to embed resilience validation into the software development lifecycle.
• Identify systemic weaknesses and lead cross-functional efforts to improve reliability and fault tolerance.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams in reliability, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with production load testing, chaos engineering, or large-scale system validation.
• Experience with chaos engineering vendors such as Gremlin or Harness.
• Deep understanding of failure modes in distributed systems, including latency and cascading outages.
• Strong programming background in Python, Kotlin, Java, or similar languages.
• Must be based in the United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first environment with flexibility to work almost anywhere within the US.
• 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents.
• Generous flexible spending wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) for discounted share acquisition.