Senior Software Engineer II (Python)

Location: Mexico, Mexico City; hybrid work model

Company

hirify.global provides trusted content, software, and insights for professionals in legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.

What you will do

• Design, implement, test, deploy, scale, and operate the customer files orchestration service.
• Build reliable workflows for file upload, storage, extraction, embedding, and indexing across distributed services.
• Develop queuing, rate limiting, backpressure, circuit breaking, dead-letter handling, and autoscaling capabilities for high-volume multi-tenant workloads.
• Design versioned APIs with documented behavior, backward compatibility, and clear ownership.
• Improve observability, automate operational work, participate in on-call rotations, and lead incident response and post-mortem actions.
• Collaborate with storage, extraction, indexing, connectors, and front-end teams while contributing through code reviews, design reviews, and technical mentoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 5 years of experience building production software and owning significant components of customer-facing systems.
• Extensive production experience with Python and AWS, including concurrent and asyncio-based applications.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, KEDA, autoscaling, resource tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, eventual consistency, durable state, retries, partial failures, delivery guarantees, idempotency, queues, backpressure, and multi-tenant fairness.
• Experience with APIs, testing, code review, observability, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, on-call support, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with document processing, OCR, file formats, large-file workflows, or document management integrations.
• Experience with Kafka, MSK, SQS, event-driven architectures, or streaming technologies.
• Experience with Temporal, AWS Step Functions, or other durable workflow engines.
• Experience with retrieval, embedding, or indexing pipelines for LLM or agentic applications.
• Legal industry experience or familiarity with Team Topologies concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles.
• Ability to work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide mental health days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and incentive programs.
• Learning and development programs focused on continuous skills growth.
• Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.