Senior / Staff Platform Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote

Salary: Base salary of $200,000–$350,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a diversified financial services firm modernizing brokerage infrastructure through a cloud-native clearing, custody, and trading platform integrated with clearing houses and exchanges.

What you will do

• Build the core AI platform powering a copilot within a new AI-native trading experience.
• Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable model-and-tool orchestration.
• Design APIs and runtime components for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks.
• Build safe trading-action infrastructure including deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs.
• Partner with product and frontend teams on streaming, citations and grounding, explanations, and reversible AI-native user experiences.
• Translate trading-domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language.
• Strong systems programming fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed-systems patterns.
• Experience designing and operating production APIs and services with observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to define platform requirements, design architecture, and deliver solutions end to end.
• High self-motivation and willingness to work in unfamiliar areas to solve problems.

Nice to have

• Strong production Rust experience, including Tokio or async programming, service design, and performance tuning.
• Experience building AI/ML inference platforms, tool-execution systems, streaming systems, or retrieval and grounding systems.
• Experience with trading systems, including order lifecycle, execution, risk checks, and auditability, or other mission-critical financial infrastructure.
• Deep experience with trading across asset classes and margin types.
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative culture focused on supporting colleagues through challenges and celebrating successes.
• Competitive compensation packages with company equity.
• 401(k) matching, gender-neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• In-office benefits include lunch stipends, stocked kitchens, happy hours, and office amenities.
• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunity.