Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments) (Fintech)

TL;DR

Manager, Software Engineering (Code to Environments): Lead the team building and operating ephemeral developer environments for development and CI workflows with an accent on provisioning, stability, scalability, and integration with CI/CD pipelines. Focus on driving measurable improvements to developer velocity, reliability, feedback loops, and operational processes in a hypergrowth FinTech environment.

Location: Remote within Canada (country of employment)

Salary: CAD 178,000 - 228,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers flexibility to buy now and pay later without hidden fees or compounding interest. Developer Productivity simplifies and accelerates software development for 800+ engineers across a broad stack.

What you will do

• Define and drive vision and technical strategy for Developer Environments on a year-long scale, aligning with business-impacting projects.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Own design, scalability, reliability, and usability of ephemeral developer environments used in development and CI.
• Improve provisioning, stability, teardown workflows, startup time, success rates, performance, and debuggability.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational playbooks; collaborate with CI/CD, infrastructure, security, and product teams.
• Drive adoption of tooling, identify pain points, and improve productivity through automation and self-service.

Requirements

• 7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years engineering management (or equivalent people leadership)
• Proven experience leading teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Strong technical background in backend/infrastructure systems (Python or Kotlin preferred).
• Experience with cloud-native systems (AWS, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Track record operating high-reliability services (monitoring, on-call, incident response, postmortems).
• Strong communication, leadership, and mentoring skills; comfort with trade-offs.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Prior experience building or managing ephemeral or remote development environments.
• Experience optimizing orchestration, startup times, and developer feedback loops.
• Background in test automation, build engineering, or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with Terraform/Helm or similar.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first company with flexibility to work anywhere within Canada; occasional office work for proximal roles.
• 100% subsidized health care coverage, dental, and vision for you and dependents.
• Flexible spending wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation, holiday schedules, and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Focus on inclusive interview experience with accommodations for disabilities.