Software Engineer, API Integrations (AI)

Location: Remote in South America; at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, generally from 8 am to 2 pm PST.

Salary: $100,000–$120,000 USD annually, benchmarked to the local market; equity may also be available.

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered intelligence platforms that help public and private sector agencies investigate illicit activity, disrupt crime, and build safer financial systems.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations for AI-native products and agentic workflows.
• Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling for adding external data sources.
• Build reliable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines for high-volume, mission-critical product experiences.
• Translate integration needs into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes with product, engineering, data, and internal stakeholders.
• Improve the quality, observability, reliability, and maintainability of the integration platform.
• Participate in an on-call rotation approximately one week every 4–6 weeks.

Requirements

• Experience designing and building scalable backend systems, APIs, web services, and production software.
• Strong understanding of third-party API integration patterns, including authentication, rate limits, retries, error handling, data normalization, and monitoring.
• Experience with relational or analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architectures.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, prioritize technical work, and drive projects from vague requirements through production launch.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders and experience working cross-functionally.
• Must be able to work remotely from South America and maintain the required PST overlap.

Nice to have

• Experience with OSINT data sources.
• Experience with AI production systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Weekly sprint schedule with opportunities to lead projects as a technical anchor.
• High ownership, psychological safety, trust, accountability, and a bias toward shipping useful systems quickly.
• Close collaboration with product, design, data platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.
• Equity plan eligibility may be available.
• Distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., London, and Singapore.

Hiring process

• Recruiter introduction, hiring manager interview, and first-round interviews focused on role-critical skills.
• Final hands-on case study, usually in a panel format, followed by references and an offer.
• Most processes include an AI skills assessment and a Leadership Principles interview; applied AI fluency is evaluated.