Lead Product Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, based anywhere in the European Economic Area; occasional travel for workshops and key client moments.

Company

hirify.global builds mission-critical products and systems for startups and global organizations, working across customer and client teams.

What you will do

• Own product outcomes from the first customer conversation through production and ongoing operation.
• Turn ambiguous product and business needs into technical plans covering scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and priorities.
• Lead hirify.global and client engineers by distributing work, unblocking delivery, reviewing, pairing, mentoring, and raising quality standards.
• Direct agentic coding tools, review and harden generated implementations, and remain accountable for shipped systems.
• Own backend architecture across APIs, data models, pipelines, infrastructure, frontend, automations, and deployment.
• Introduce AI-assisted engineering practices and leave teams able to continue shipping independently.

Requirements

• Strong foundational depth in software engineering and system design, including the ability to evaluate, challenge, and correct AI-generated work.
• Proven experience leading engineers through real deliveries, distributing work, making technical decisions, mentoring, and improving team delivery speed.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to work with customers, translate needs into actionable work, orchestrate delivery, and iterate quickly.
• Daily experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, including experience-based views on their strengths and limitations.
• Backend expertise covering REST API design, SQL databases including PostgreSQL and MySQL, NoSQL databases including MongoDB, and tools such as Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, or Celery.
• Proficiency in Python and its modern ecosystem, plus Git, CI/CD, and Docker.
• Comfort with infrastructure and deployment using AWS, DigitalOcean, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies; experience running systems at scale is highly valued.
• Frontend proficiency with TypeScript, React, and Node.js, including the ability to build and extend products across the stack.
• Fluent written and spoken English is required.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for workshops and key client moments.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work in a fully distributed team based in the European Economic Area.
• Flexible schedule with control over working hours.
• Competitive compensation based on experience and impact.
• Brand new MacBook Pro or equivalent working laptop.
• Small team focused on craftsmanship, clarity, speed, ownership, and meaningful work.