Engineering Manager (Platform)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Platform): Lead hirify.global’s Application Excellence (AppEx) team to improve internal developer experience, establish golden paths and best practices, and build self-serve tooling with an accent on alignment, diagnosis from cross-org feedback, and unblocking engineers. Focus on delivering high-leverage platform initiatives across a high-traffic, event-driven system while shaping sustainable engineering team performance.

Location: Remote (UK, Ireland, Lisbon, Netherlands)

Company

hirify.global builds payment infrastructure as a Merchant of Record to remove payment fragmentation for software sellers.

What you will do

• Lead the AppEx team from concept and planning through rollout, partnering with engineers and stakeholders across the organization.
• Own developer productivity and internal developer experience outcomes, translating feedback into a clear, well-argued roadmap.
• Coordinate across team boundaries (including SRE, Security, Principal Engineers, and leadership) and influence without relying on authority.
• Manage and coach engineers, contributing hands-on through code reviews while keeping the team unblocked and moving.
• Oversee technical decisions and contribute to the Platform group’s technical strategy.
• Maintain shared libraries and tools used by many services, ensuring safe upkeep and rollout.

Requirements

• Significant senior engineering experience with complex, large-scale, cloud-based systems (Go is a plus), ideally with Platform or Internal Developer Experience exposure.
• Management experience with 2+ years and several direct reports (2+), with a genuine passion for developing people.
• Experience building products for internal stakeholders and developers.
• Strong ability to build trust and alignment: gather and synthesize feedback, communicate clear rationale, and bring people along before executing.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping loosely defined problems into a sequenced path while moving at pace.
• Must be eligible to work remotely from the UK, Ireland, Lisbon (Portugal), or the Netherlands.

Culture & Benefits

• Digital-first work model: remote work, from hubs, or a mix of both.
• Unlimited holidays, enhanced parental leave, and well-being initiatives.
• Competitive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, and private healthcare.
• Ongoing investment in learning and personal development, including an annual learning fund and internal/external training.