Backend Engineer, AI

Location: Remote, based in China; interviews may be conducted virtually or onsite.

Company

hirify.global is building AI-native applications for conversations, errands, organization, and workflows, with a focus on reliable long-running tasks and persistent context.

What you will do

• Build and operate backend systems serving AI-powered features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around language and multimodal models.
• Develop stable, observable APIs for mobile, desktop, frontend, and ML systems.
• Own monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response for production services.
• Optimize inference latency and throughput through caching, batching, and streaming.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience operating 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.
• Bias toward shipping and learning from production behavior.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small, high-talent-density, hands-on team.
• Make decisions collectively and move at a rapid pace while balancing quality with learning.
• Work independently, bring structure, and exercise judgment.
• Remote work with virtual and/or onsite interviews.
• Prompt hiring decisions after three, and no more than four, interviews when there is a strong fit.

Hiring process

• Applications are evaluated by technical team members.
• Expect three, and no more than four, interviews conducted virtually and/or onsite.
• A prompt decision follows the interview process.