Staff Software Engineer (Cloud/AI)

Location: VA, US; other listed locations: Waite Park, RI, TX, OH, and IL, US

Company

hirify.global builds cloud software for government agencies across North America, supporting systems of record for legally binding documents, public funds, land records, vital records, and secure public access.

What you will do

• Lead key Records platform projects from requirements and architecture through production.
• Design and build eRecording, eSubmission, automated indexing, search, certified copy, fraud alert, identity verification, and payment capabilities.
• Modernize the tightly coupled platform by extracting microservices, introducing configurable self-service workflows, and removing dependencies on specific peripherals.
• Own search architecture, including indexing, relevance, query performance, and scaling for large document volumes.
• Design accurate data migrations for historical customer records and lead responses to serious production incidents.
• Set technical, code review, testing, security, observability, and architecture standards while mentoring Senior Engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of full-stack development and cloud software experience across Microsoft and open-source technology stacks.
• Advanced backend development with Java and .NET, including .NET Framework and modern .NET.
• Strong React experience building responsive and accessible interfaces for staff and public users.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating microservices, including service boundaries, API design and versioning, inter-service communication, and resilience patterns.
• Proficiency in Azure or AWS and cloud-native patterns such as serverless, event-driven architecture, distributed caching, and containerization.
• Deep SQL Server and relational database experience, plus hands-on document database experience, ideally Azure DocumentDB/Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, including data modeling, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Strong expertise in Elasticsearch, Azure AI Search, OpenSearch, Solr, or Lucene and large-scale search optimization.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems into microservices while maintaining production stability, processing high-volume data, and performing large-scale migrations.
• Experience as a hands-on technical lead on complex projects, writing design documents or architecture decision records, and working in Agile environments.
• Hands-on AI-assisted or agentic development experience, with judgment about maintainability.
• Understanding of SOC 2, PCI, and related security and compliance requirements, plus strong communication and technical mentorship skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with land records, vital records, county clerk systems, document management, imaging, scanning, hardware peripherals, or eRecording integrations.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience with spec-driven development, context engineering, or reusable agent skills and workflows such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot agents.
• Experience with StateRAMP/GovRAMP, FedRAMP, or other public-sector security frameworks.
• Experience with Python or Node.js/TypeScript.

Culture & Benefits

• Technical leadership is separate from people and delivery management; the Staff Engineer owns technical depth and direction.
• Work includes cross-functional collaboration with product, architecture, Platform Engineering, leadership, and Senior Engineers.
• Engineering practices emphasize correctness, security, reliability, documentation, knowledge sharing, and reducing key-person risk.
• hirify.global offers a competitive benefits and compensation package and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.