Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4 (AI)

Location: Bellevue, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, or San Francisco, United States. Office attendance is expected 4+ days per week under hirify.global's “default together” policy.

Company

hirify.global Inc. is a technology company operating hirify.globalchat and other digital services, with engineering teams building products used by hundreds of millions of people.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate critical scalable services, including user identity, friend graph, and core persistence systems.
• Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver backend solutions.
• Test, debug, and maintain high standards for code correctness, security, and production readiness.
• Apply best practices for availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management.
• Use AI tools and high-velocity engineering workflows while auditing generated output for architectural integrity, performance, and security risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of post-Bachelor's software development experience, or a Master's degree plus 1+ year of post-graduate software development experience, or a PhD in a relevant technical field.
• Experience with backend services and distributed systems.
• Experience operating highly available systems at significant scale.
• Ability to independently execute medium-sized features spanning several weeks and multiple pull requests.
• Understanding of system operations, including participation in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others.
• Experience in at least one of large-scale microservices and distributed systems, cloud computing and storage, infrastructure and large-scale system design, security, networking and data storage, or machine learning and natural language processing tools.
• Proficiency in or strong aptitude for using AI tools, with the judgment to audit their output.
• Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with Java, C++, and/or Python.
• Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache or Redis, Kubernetes, or Google and AWS services.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration is expected at least 4 days per week.
• Benefits include paid parental leave, comprehensive medical coverage, and emotional and mental health support programs.
• Compensation packages include opportunities to share in hirify.global's long-term success.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer committed to diverse and inclusive employment practices.