Principal Software Developer (Manufacturing)

Location: Mexico City

Company

hirify.global develops software supporting manufacturing, planning, scheduling, optimization, production, and supply chain workflows.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for complex, cross-team capabilities across the MSC product suite from problem definition through delivery and support.
• Partner with Product Management, Product Owners, Agile Team Leads, and System Architecture to evaluate feasibility, shape solution options, and define incremental delivery plans.
• Lead architecture and design decisions, develop and review critical software components, prototypes, interfaces, and technical designs, and support codebase maintenance and modernization.
• Drive code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, performance, reliability, scalability, and secure design.
• Manage technical dependencies, risks, trade-offs, and nonfunctional requirements; participate in SAFe events including PI Planning, backlog refinement, system demos, and Inspect and Adapt.
• Mentor senior engineers and feature leads, establish reusable patterns, and promote knowledge transfer across product areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Typically 8+ years of professional software development experience, including technical leadership for enterprise or industrial products.
• Expert software development skills in C#/.NET/Java, with strong experience in APIs, data persistence, distributed systems, and modern architecture practices.
• Ability to lead the design and delivery of complex software capabilities across components or teams.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, CI/CD, telemetry, performance, reliability, and secure development practices.
• Ability to translate business priorities, customer workflows, and technical constraints into implementable solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Experience influencing technical decisions, resolving ambiguity, and aligning stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Excellent communication, technical writing, mentoring, and presentation skills in English.

Nice to have

• Experience developing enterprise, industrial, scientific, or data-intensive software applications.
• Familiarity with complex business domains, distributed systems, workflow-driven applications, mathematical modeling, optimization, analytics, or decision-support systems.
• Experience with cloud-native systems, REST APIs, microservices, containers or orchestration, telemetry, and modernization of legacy applications.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments, including planning, execution, and delivery activities; strong understanding of SAFe practices such as PI Planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, risk identification and mitigation, iterative delivery, and cross-team collaboration.
• Experience developing shared technical patterns and growing engineering capability across multiple teams or product areas.

Culture & Benefits

• Career development programs.
• Community service projects and social events that support relationship building across the global community.
• Collaboration across Agile teams and product areas.