Senior Engineering Manager, Advanced Product Designer (APD)

Location: Canada - Toronto. All new hires participate in an in-person orientation process.

Salary: CAD 163,000–204,000 base salary per year, with some roles eligible for bonuses, commissions, or long-term incentive awards.

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud platform combining digital, core, analytics, and AI capabilities for property and casualty insurers worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead 2–3 APD engineering teams and their technical leads, fostering coaching, inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Drive the architecture, delivery, scalability, security, observability, and operational maturity of APD on App Platform 2.0.
• Own the evolution of APD design-time and runtime services, APIs, and platform integrations.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Platform Engineering, Security, and SRE to deliver product strategy and launches.
• Shape APD as the product-model source of truth and improve interoperability with Rules, Schema Editor, Package Manager, App Manager, and other lifecycle services.
• Hire, coach, and develop senior engineers and technical leads while improving planning, delivery predictability, reliability, and security outcomes.

Requirements

• Extensive software engineering experience in SaaS or platform product development, including management of multiple engineering teams or technical leads.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java, backend engineering, distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and secure multi-tenant platforms.
• Experience building and operating cloud applications on AWS, including Kubernetes, containerization, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Experience driving architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical execution for platform or enterprise software products.
• Experience integrating AI, ML, or GenAI capabilities into production software, platforms, or engineering workflows.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, judgment, and organizational skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with product configuration, product modeling, rules, or lifecycle-management systems in insurance or another complex enterprise domain.
• Familiarity with APD, PolicyCenter, Cloud APIs, App Events, digital integrations, or adjacent App Platform services.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus wellness benefits.
• Paid time off, including volunteer time off.
• Market-competitive pay and incentive programs.
• Continual development and internal career growth opportunities.
• Company-sponsored retirement plan for eligible positions.