Engineering Manager (Java)

Location: Remote, Bangalore, India

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools for businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional product teams.
• Assess product requirements for technical feasibility and translate them into EPICs, user stories, and actionable tasks.
• Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineers, and QA to refine and prioritize the backlog.
• Plan sprint execution, delivery milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Guide technical design decisions, participate in code reviews, and maintain engineering quality.
• Ensure monitoring, alerting, observability, SLI/SLO performance, incident response, and post-release metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8–10 years of experience in software development or a similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of production experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Strong backend engineering, Agile delivery, project planning, stakeholder management, and risk management skills.
• Experience with CI/CD, release management, monitoring, debugging production issues, incident response, and blameless root-cause analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first environment focused on well-being, inclusion, mutual respect, and employee voice.
• Learning and development support through knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and additional benefits.

Hiring process

• Recruiter phone call.
• Live coding and code review session, followed by system design and technical discussions.
• Project planning, product thinking, behavioral, and hiring manager interviews.