Procurify

Engineering Manager, AI Engineering

Procurify$184K — $205K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2 years in a direct people management role
  • 3-5 years in a Data and/or AI Engineering team
  • Experience building scalable, customer-facing data products using Python, Databricks, Azure, and Kubernetes
  • Strong experience with Data Lakehouse technologies like Databricks and Apache Spark
  • Understanding of Data Science concepts in Machine Learning and Generative AI
  • Self-driven, accountable leader with an empathetic approach
  • Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to diverse audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of 6-8 engineers, fostering a culture of trust and collaboration
  • Define success metrics, track progress, and communicate transparently with stakeholders
  • Own the technical direction and long-term vision for the Data/AI team
  • Guide design and implementation of scalable data architectures and pipelines
  • Balance technical debt with new feature development to support long-term goals
  • Collaborate with the Product Manager and Designer to understand customer needs
  • Contribute to the evolution of Procurify's engineering culture

Benefits

  • Remote-first organization with flexible working hours within Canada
  • Responsible time off to ensure team members can recharge
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits with an Employee Assistance Program
  • Opportunities for community involvement through various initiatives
  • Stock options for all employees to own a part of Procurify
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives with ongoing discussions and learning opportunities
Full Job Description
Engineering Manager -AI

The Opportunity

We're hiring an Engineering Manager, AI Engineering to lead our AI Engineering team. This team is responsible for building and operating the intelligence layer that powers Procurify's platform, leveraging Generative AI, Machine Learning, LLMs, and agentic systems to help customers automate workflows, uncover insights, and make more effective spending decisions.

This is a player-coach leadership role. You'll lead a team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical strategy, architecture, prototyping, and critical implementation decisions. You'll balance people leadership with hands-on technical contribution, helping shape both our AI platform and the next generation of AI-powered customer experiences.

You'll work closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, Security, and Engineering leadership to define and execute Procurify's AI strategy while building a highly engaged, high-performing team. You value accountability, technical excellence, and know how to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Lead & Mentor
  • Manage a team of AI Engineers, providing coaching for technical excellence, fostering individual career growth, and nurturing a high-performance culture built on trust, ownership, experimentation, and collaboration.
Lead Through Technical Contribution
  • Serve as a player-coach by actively participating in architecture reviews, technical design, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and critical implementation efforts. Maintain technical credibility through active engagement with the team's work and technical direction.
Drive AI Product Delivery
  • Lead your team to consistently deliver high-impact AI-powered products and platform capabilities. You'll define success metrics, track progress transparently, and proactively communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and business impact.
Shape AI Architecture & Technical Vision
  • Lead the technical strategy for AI Engineering by partnering with key stakeholders across Product, Platform, and Security to align our technical investments with business goals. By building foundational platforms rather, you will define the architectural standards and guardrails that empower our team to innovate at speed and scale agentic workflows, RAG systems, and LLM-powered features. Your focus includes:
    • LLM-powered applications
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
    • Agentic workflows and orchestration
    • Prompt and context engineering frameworks
    • AI evaluation systems
    • AI observability and monitoring
    • Responsible AI and governance practices
Build Production-Grade AI Systems
  • Guide the design, development, deployment, and operation of AI services and infrastructure, including:
  • LLM and model integrations
  • Knowledge retrieval systems
  • AI orchestration platforms
  • Agent frameworks
  • Evaluation and testing frameworks
  • AI monitoring and feedback loops
Balance Innovation & Execution
  • Think strategically to balance experimentation, technical debt reduction, platform investments, and product delivery. Help the organization move quickly while maintaining engineering quality and operational excellence.
Grow Our Engineering Culture
  • Work with Engineering leadership to evolve Procurify's engineering culture, championing technical excellence, responsible innovation, continuous learning, and disciplined execution.
Collaborate Broadly
  • Work closely with partners across the organization-including Security, Platform Engineering, Product, Design and Customer teams-to deliver robust, trustworthy, and compliant AI solutions.


Lead with CARES
  • Commitment: Demonstrates accountability and follow-through, delivering reliably and owning outcomes in a way that others can depend on.
  • Ambition: Takes initiative with curiosity and a growth mindset, pursuing bold ideas that elevate impact and performance.
  • Resilience: Shows adaptability, composure, and perseverance through challenges, staying focused and effective in a fast-changing environment.
  • Excellence: Brings rigor, collaboration, and a strong quality focus to deliver high-performing solutions and raise the bar for outcomes.
  • Simplicity: Applies focus, clarity, and streamlining to cut through complexity and enable efficient, impactful execution.


What You Bring

Required

Proven Leadership: 8+ years of software engineering experience. 3+ years leading software engineering teams. 3-5+ years building and deploying AI-powered products or platforms in production environments. Demonstrated success operating as a technical leader in a player-coach capacity.

AI Engineering Expertise Strong hands-on experience building and operating:
  • LLM-powered applications
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
  • Agentic AI workflows
  • AI orchestration frameworks
  • AI evaluation and monitoring systems
  • Production machine learning services
Modern AI Platform Experience

Experience working with technologies such as:
  • Python
  • Azure OpenAI and/or AWS Bedrock
  • Databricks
  • Kubernetes
  • Vector databases
  • LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or similar orchestration frameworks
  • ML/LLMOps tooling

Architectural Acumen: Proven ability to architect and scale distributed systems, AI platforms, and customer-facing software products. You have a track record of navigating technical complexity while making pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

AI Product Mindset: Experience translating ambiguous business problems into AI-enabled products that deliver measurable customer value.

Empathetic & Accountable: A self-driven, accountable leader who thrives in an autonomous, fast-paced environment and leads with empathy, compassion, and a people-first approach.

Exceptional Communicator: You excel at communicating complex technical concepts, AI capabilities, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Modern AI Experience: Deep understanding of modern AI technologies including:
  • Generative AI
  • Large Language Models
  • Retrieval systems
  • Agentic architectures
  • AI safety and governance considerations


Preferred

FinTech or B2B SaaS Experience: A strong interest or background in the FinTech ecosystem. Direct experience building AI-powered products in a B2B SaaS environment is highly desirable.

Agile & DevOps Mindset: Strong knowledge of agile development practices, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and modern software delivery practices.

AI Platform & LLMOps Experience: Experience building workflow orchestration systems, durable async programming, intent detection, AI platforms, evaluation frameworks, model governance, processes, or AI developer tooling.

Why This Role is Exciting
  • You'll define and execute Procurify's AI Engineering strategy.
  • You'll build AI capabilities that directly shape the future of our platform.
  • You'll lead a talented team of AI Engineers while remaining deeply technical.
  • You'll influence architecture, platform investments, and AI governance across the organization.
  • You'll help establish best practices for how AI is built, deployed, and operated at scale.
  • You'll be part of a supportive, people-first culture that values curiosity, autonomy, growth, and innovation.


What Makes Procurify a Great Place to Work for Engineers
  • A modern technology stack with opportunities to influence future architecture.
  • A culture committed to learning, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
  • Clear technical vision and empowered teams that own outcomes.
  • Genuine collaboration, psychological safety, and a people-first culture.
  • Meaningful problems to solve with real customer and business impact.


LEARN MORE

Apply online today and let's start a conversation.

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  • Learn more about our procure-to-pay platform

About Procurify

Procurify is a technology company that provides procurement software to businesses. The company's platform helps businesses streamline their procurement processes and manage their spending. Procurify's products include purchase order management, expense management, and inventory management tools. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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