Software Engineer – Developer Experience & AI Platform

Location: McLean, Virginia, United States; full-time in-office attendance five days per week is required.

Salary: $120,000–$159,000 USD annual base salary, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides a digital identity wallet and identity verification platform used by consumers, government agencies, healthcare organizations, and consumer brands.

What you will do

• Build internal developer tools, CLI utilities, Internal Developer Portal workflows, reusable GitHub Actions, and automated guardrails for fast, reliable service delivery.
• Design and maintain programming-language-specific golden paths with scaffolding, SDKs, shared libraries, container base images, and standardized CI/CD templates.
• Build AI-native developer platform capabilities, including MCP servers and registries, RAG pipelines, context-engineering systems, and AI coding assistant integrations.
• Deploy autonomous and human-in-the-loop AI agents for dependency and framework upgrades, vulnerability remediation, configuration migrations, test generation, and standards enforcement.
• Replace manual processes and ticket queues with self-service automation while partnering with product, infrastructure, SRE, and security teams.
• Own medium-to-large platform initiatives from technical design through rollout, adoption, operational support, documentation, and engineer enablement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience building backend services, developer tooling, or platform automation.
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Java, with the ability to work across multiple language ecosystems.
• Demonstrated experience using and building modern AI and Agentic AI tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, LLM APIs, MCP servers, or agentic frameworks, to accelerate software delivery and automate engineering workflows.
• Strong passion for automation, self-service system design, and reducing cognitive load for other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience in Developer Experience, Internal Developer Platform, AI Enablement, or Platform Engineering.
• Experience designing autonomous AI agents, custom MCP tools or servers, RAG systems, or LLM-powered CI/CD and code-maintenance workflows.
• Experience building language-specific scaffolding, SDKs, linters, codemods, or standardized build and deployment templates across multiple languages.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions reusable workflows, Docker, Kubernetes, and Internal Developer Portals such as Backstage.
• Experience with GCP or AWS and Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform.
• Understanding of production observability and embedding security or compliance guardrails such as FedRAMP, SOC2, or NIST into developer pipelines.
• Systems-level thinking, strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to champion standards through enablement and intuitive tooling.
• Ownership of a significant platform tool, automation pipeline, or AI-enabled workflow from design through organization-wide adoption.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, in-office work at the McLean office.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, commuter benefits, life insurance, disability insurance, and accident and critical illness insurance.
• 401(k) with company match, parental leave, unlimited paid time off subject to policy, and company-wide holidays.
• Learning and development benefit, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistance, wellbeing and childcare discounts, and benefit advocates.
• Equal employment opportunity commitment and reasonable accommodation for qualified disabilities.