Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Platform

Location: On-site in San Diego or San Mateo, California, United States

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company building intelligent autonomy systems for air, maritime, space, and other platforms operating in complex and contested environments.

What you will do

• Build and operate Forge, a front-end-focused development platform embedded in workflows for training, validating, and deploying the AI Pilot.
• Design composable UI architecture supporting applications, dashboards, commands, widgets, and shared resource context.
• Define typed, versioned contracts and workflows for packaging, publishing, configuring, installing, upgrading, and disabling applications.
• Enable native AI experiences and external agent harnesses to understand context, invoke authorized tools, navigate applications, and compose dashboards.
• Deliver consistent application behavior across local-development and AI Factory environments while partnering with simulation, autonomy, and ML experts.
• Work across infrastructure, security, product, and design to shape platform architecture and engineering practices.

Requirements

• Experience owning production full-stack applications from design and implementation through rollout and support.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript and React or an equivalent modern web stack.
• Experience building production backend services in Go, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
• Experience designing typed, versioned APIs and contracts between independently deployed components.
• Strong knowledge of web and distributed-system architecture, including state management, routing, asynchronous communication, browser security, authentication, authorization, and failure handling.
• Experience building real-time and high-performance applications using WebGL or WebGPU.
• Sound judgment about extending existing systems, introducing abstractions, or keeping solutions intentionally small.
• Clear communication skills and ability to work across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience with extensible application platforms, plugin systems, micro-frontends, web sandboxing, Web Components, or VS Code extensions.
• Experience with agent-tool integrations and protocols such as Model Context Protocol.
• Experience with API gateways, reverse proxies, service catalogs, or policy-driven routing.
• Experience with schema-driven API development using OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, or generated clients.
• Experience with Kubernetes and ingress or gateways.
• Experience building composable user experiences such as dashboard builders, configurable layouts, data visualization, or collaborative application state.
• Experience in robotics, autonomy, simulation, aerospace, or other domains where software interacts with real-world systems.
• Experience shipping Electron applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employee position with on-site work.
• Own complete workflows across user experience, frontend architecture, backend services, APIs, deployment, and operations.
• Partner directly with engineers working on autonomy, simulation, data, and infrastructure problems.
• Design human-and-agent workflows while preserving user control, security, and accountability.