Backend Engineer, AI

Location: Remote from Portugal

Company

hirify.global is building proactive AI-native applications that help people manage conversations, errands, organisation, and workflows with minimal prompting.

What you will do

• Build and operate backend systems serving AI-powered features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, model orchestration layers, and service boundaries.
• Develop fast, stable, and observable APIs for mobile and desktop clients.
• Own monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response for production systems.
• Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns, including LLMs, embeddings, and multimodal models.
• Ability to debug distributed systems under load.
• Experience with Python, Node.js, PyTorch, SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small, high-talent-density, hands-on team.
• Make decisions collectively while moving quickly and maintaining high-quality standards.
• Exercise judgment, bring structure, and execute independently.
• Virtual meetings and/or onsite interviews are available.
• Prompt decisions are expected after the interview process.

Hiring process

• Complete three, and no more than four, interviews if selected for further consideration.
• Interviews are conducted by technical team members through virtual meetings and/or onsite sessions.
• Applications are evaluated by the technical team, followed by a prompt decision.