Senior Software Developer (AI)

Location: Remote or hybrid in Canada, with EST working hours; office location in Ottawa, Ontario

Salary: CAD 125,000–150,000 base annually, with potential bonus eligibility

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered financial risk intelligence software for finance and audit professionals, analyzing high-volume financial transactions.

What you will do

• Lead technical design and delivery for cross-functional initiatives spanning backend services, data systems, APIs, analytics, AI agent services, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design and evolve secure, scalable systems for financial data ingestion, analysis, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, and AI-assisted insights.
• Own subsystem-level implementation, code reviews, critical-path development, debugging, production readiness, and incident remediation.
• Identify technical risks, reliability gaps, performance bottlenecks, and architectural opportunities across multiple engineering teams.
• Establish and improve standards for API design, data modeling, asynchronous processing, CI/CD, security, testing, and observability.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, UX/Design, Security, Infrastructure, Implementation, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including enterprise SaaS, data-intensive, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing secure, reliable, multi-tenant SaaS systems with strong data isolation, access control, auditability, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Hands-on experience with ingestion pipelines, ETL/ELT, batch or streaming processing, analytical workflows, data validation, and warehouse or lakehouse integrations.
• Strong knowledge of API design, service integration, data modeling, performance optimization, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of production AI/ML systems, prompt orchestration, RAG, or agent workflow patterns.
• Experience with cloud-native practices, containerized workloads, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, production operations, and Agile collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, audit, accounting, risk, compliance, or other regulated enterprise environments.
• Proficiency with Java/Spring Boot, Python, Azure, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, or Power BI integrations.
• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, lakehouse architectures, Apache Iceberg, or Delta Lake.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, SRE practices, incident management, React, SDKs, developer tooling, or enterprise integration platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote and hybrid work arrangements.
• Comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.
• Professional development opportunities and flexible time off.
• Company-matched retirement plans, competitive compensation, and equity opportunities.
• Four company-wide digital detox days each year.

Hiring process

• Employment is contingent on completing and clearing a full background check.
• Accommodation support is available throughout the interview process.