Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: In-person at the NYC headquarters in Union Square, New York City

Salary: $175,000–$300,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-native video platform that uses natural language to orchestrate video production and editing through contextual models and agents.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure end to end.
• Solve technical challenges involving distributed systems, scaling, concurrency, and performance.
• Deploy, serve, and scale large generative AI models in production.
• Instrument systems, run experiments, and improve product and system quality.
• Operate platform infrastructure, including third-party integrations, storage, security, and internal APIs.
• Partner with product, design, client, and AI teams to deliver reliable production systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional industry experience.
• Experience shipping high-impact systems or products to production.
• Strong problem-solving fundamentals and ability to learn quickly.
• Strong engineering judgment, practicality, and time-management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver projects end to end.
• Ability to work in person at the NYC headquarters.

Nice to have

• Extensive experience with LLMs and generative media models.
• Experience as a startup founder or early engineer.
• Collaborative and pragmatic approach to helping the team deliver.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on foundational technical and creative challenges in generative media.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Commuter benefits, catered lunches, dinner stipend, and Grubhub subscription.
• Health and wellness perks, generous PTO, and regular team offsites and events.