Engineering Manager (AI)

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; hybrid with in-office work 2–3 days per week

Salary: CAD 90,000–140,000 per year, with potential exceptions for preferred skills and eligibility for discretionary incentive plans.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance and wealth solutions focused on helping clients achieve financial security and live healthier lives.

What you will do

• Lead sprint execution, delivery commitments, release coordination, and day-to-day work for a single engineering squad.
• Translate product requirements into executable engineering work and partner with Product and Design on scope and trade-offs.
• Manage developers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, engagement, and career development.
• Maintain engineering standards, code quality, technical discussions, architecture reviews, and design reviews.
• Remove blockers and manage dependencies across squads, enterprise teams, and vendors.
• Balance technical debt with feature delivery while supporting fast iterations, continuous deployment, and data-driven decisions.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years as an Engineering Manager or equivalent team leader.
• Experience leading a single squad or team end-to-end across delivery, quality, reliability, and team health.
• Hands-on expertise with Java, React or a similar modern JavaScript technology, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with Agile execution rituals, sprint planning, estimation, flow management, dependency management, and release coordination.
• Experience hiring, onboarding, coaching, and developing engineers, including performance and growth conversations.
• Ability to partner with Product and Design, guide technical decisions, communicate risks, and protect team focus.

Nice to have

• Experience with Salesforce.
• Experience in a product-focused technology company or startup environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workstyle combining office and virtual work based on business and client needs.
• Opportunity to build products used by real customers and contribute to hirify.global's digital platform strategy.
• Technical leadership, autonomy, mentorship, and exposure to new technologies and the full product lifecycle.
• Collaborative and inclusive environment with support for professional growth.
• hirify.global may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling.

Hiring process

• Only selected applicants will be contacted for an interview.
• Accommodation is available for candidates who need support during the application process.