VP of Engineering (AI)

Location: On-site at the SoHo office in New York City, United States

Salary: $350K–$450K base salary plus equity

Company

hirify.global is an IRL community platform that helps organizers launch and monetize events while enabling consumers to discover communities based on shared interests. The company has 8M+ users, a 70-person team, $70M in venture funding, and has facilitated more than $350M in transactions.

What you will do

• Own engineering velocity, quality, culture, and the organization’s technical narrative across company, board, and investor communications.
• Define the technical vision, architecture principles, pod structure, and strategy for the Web, Mobile, AI, and platform infrastructure.
• Build an AI-native engineering organization by developing agentic workflows, evaluating tools, and evolving team structure and developer leverage.
• Lead hiring, performance management, career growth, leadership development, and organizational change for a team of approximately 25 engineers.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape roadmap, scope, product craft, and technical priorities as a cohesive R&D function.
• Establish measurable engineering health signals, including scoping accuracy, on-call load, bug frequency, uptime, time-to-merge, and developer experience.

Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years managing managers on high-growth consumer or marketplace software teams.
• Experience scaling engineering organizations, ideally from approximately 25 to 75+ engineers, and managing through organizational change.
• Deep platform architecture and infrastructure expertise, with prior Staff or Principal-level engineering experience and the ability to contribute to RFCs, system design, production incidents, code, and code reviews.
• Track record of hiring and developing Staff and Principal Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Directors while building a strong leadership bench.
• Strong current knowledge of consumer web and mobile architecture, backend infrastructure at tens-of-millions-of-MAUs scale, and AI-native software development practices.
• Exceptional communication and operating skills, including executive presentations, board updates, roadmap reviews, and performance conversations; experience working closely with a founder or CEO.

Nice to have

• Experience with React and React Native using Expo at scale.
• Background at companies recognized for engineering craft and consumer focus, such as Airbnb, Uber, DoorDash, Stripe, Linear, Ramp, Notion, or Figma.
• Written perspectives on engineering culture, such as talks, posts, or internal manifestos.
• A network of engineering leaders for talks and mentorship of new managers.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave.
• Paid access to a mentor of choice.
• Equinox membership, daily Uber Eats credit, and a new MacBook.
• Team events, dinners, and off-sites.