Principal Software Engineer- Architectual Leader (AI)

Location: Sunrise, Florida, United States

Salary: $163,900–$235,550 per year, plus potential performance-based bonus and restricted stock unit awards.

Company

hirify.global develops a workforce operating platform with workforce insights and AI capabilities for organizations across industries.

What you will do

• Define and evolve architecture for large-scale, distributed payroll processing agents and supporting services.
• Design high-throughput payroll calculation engines and batch or near-real-time processing pipelines.
• Ensure accuracy, availability, security, auditability, traceability, scalability, and regulatory compliance across payroll workflows.
• Integrate AI-driven automation, anomaly detection, forecasting, and decision-support capabilities into production payroll systems.
• Design data models, persistence strategies, APIs, and services across relational and NoSQL platforms.
• Lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years at senior, staff, or principal level.
• Deep experience designing distributed systems with .NET Core and modern backend architectures.
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB, including data modeling and performance tuning.
• Experience building and supporting large-scale, business-critical processing systems.
• Proven ability to lead architecture, influence technical decisions, mentor engineers, and break ambiguous problems into technical designs.
• Experience collaborating with AI, ML, or data science teams to productionize intelligent capabilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with payroll, HCM, financial, or other regulated enterprise systems.
• Knowledge of anomaly detection, rule augmentation, model inference pipelines, or decision-support systems.
• Experience with compliance, auditability, data privacy, Angular integrations, and event-driven, batch, or hybrid architectures.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems or leading large-scale technical transformations.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, technical improvement, and shared outcomes.
• Employee benefits and flexible work support are provided.
• Eligible employees may receive performance-based bonuses and restricted stock unit awards.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify.