Retail Software Engineer (AI/Android)

Location: Spring, Texas, United States of America. An additional location is listed in Vancouver, Washington, United States of America.

Annual salary: $147,050–$230,850 USD, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for candidates in the United States of America.

Company

hirify.global develops technology products and services, including commercial software solutions for the retail industry.

What you will do

• Lead software development from prototypes through production across Android applications, backend services, and AI agents.
• Translate customer and product requirements into technical designs, acceptance criteria, priorities, and working software.
• Build agent harnesses connecting AI models with context, tools, memory, permissions, and workflows, including interruptions, recovery, and human approvals.
• Select, integrate, and evaluate AI models for reasoning, tool use, and vision while optimizing inference quality, latency, reliability, and cost across cloud and edge environments.
• Develop Android applications for retail handhelds and tablets with adaptive interfaces, voice, camera, scanning, payments, and secure enterprise integrations.
• Establish practices for AI-assisted coding, testing, security, continuous integration, releases, monitoring, mentoring, and technical issue resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership and hands-on product development from concept through production.
• Experience building AI applications with large language models, agent frameworks or harnesses, tool calling, retrieval, inference, and evaluation.
• Strong Android development experience and integration of mobile software with backend services, enterprise systems, and device capabilities; Kotlin and Jetpack Compose are preferred.
• Experience working with customers, customer IT, or customer-facing engineers, plus practical use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Knowledge of secure software development, authentication, authorization, data privacy, audit logging, automated testing, continuous integration, and release management.

Nice to have

• Retail technology experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance, life insurance, and an employee assistance program.
• Flexible spending account and generous paid time off policies.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure and 11 paid holidays.
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave.