Engineering Manager

Location: Tokyo, Japan; hybrid with at least 3 days per week in the local office

Company

hirify.global builds financial products and insurance technology that help people across Asia manage money, insurance, spending, saving, investing, exchanging, and travelling.

What you will do

• Lead and manage engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack development.
• Own engineering delivery for major product areas, balancing speed, reliability, scalability, and technical quality.
• Partner with product, design, mobile, backend, and AI teams to turn ambiguous product problems into technical execution.
• Drive architecture and engineering decisions across APIs, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and customer-facing systems.
• Set standards for code quality, system design, testing, observability, security, and production reliability.
• Coach engineers, manage performance, improve tooling and automation, and own incident resolution and root-cause prevention.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering background with experience building and shipping production systems.
• Experience leading or managing software engineers and owning engineering delivery.
• Technical depth across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience making architecture trade-offs and taking products or systems from idea through production.
• Strong people leadership, product sense, ownership, and ability to work through ambiguity.
• Strong English communication is required, and candidates must be based in or able to work from the advertised location.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement with flexibility to work remotely on the remaining days.
• Engineering culture focused on ownership, speed, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Global teams representing more than 20 nationalities.
• Opportunity to build products used by millions of users across the region.

Hiring process

• Online assessment or practical task.
• Technical and engineering leadership interview.
• CEO or final-round interview, with a target of completing the process and making an offer within one week from the start of interviews.