Junior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: New York, US; hybrid

Salary: $110,000 per year plus uncapped commission

Company

hirify.global designs and builds mobile, smart TV, and web applications for clients, primarily in media, including products serving billions of streams and millions of viewers.

What you will do

• Build and improve internal tools and workflows for shipping software with AI.
• Develop internal agents, practical coding guidelines, and methods for evaluating whether new models improve or worsen output.
• Work primarily with TypeScript, Node.js, and React.
• Use AI coding tools daily while reviewing and owning every line of shipped code.
• Progressively work with clients and explain technical work to engineers and non-engineers.

Requirements

• Experience building something independently, such as a side project or a script that solved a practical problem.
• Ability to resolve ambiguity, document assumptions, and raise blockers promptly.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot, including judgment in reviewing their output.
• Ability to reuse existing code and identify potential security issues.
• Comfort with rapidly changing AI tooling and project direction.
• Applicants may have a CS degree, bootcamp background, internships, or be self-taught; evaluation focuses on what they have built and how they reason through problems.
• Comfort communicating clearly with engineers and non-engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside experienced production engineers who provide support on difficult problems.
• Curiosity, initiative, and continuing independently without being told what to do next are valued.
• Liberal vacation time and healthcare.
• Awesome coworkers.

Hiring process

• Complete a 30-minute video conversation about your background, hirify.global, and consulting.
• Complete an approximately 1-hour-45-minute interview with two engineers covering a project walkthrough, system design, agentic programming on a provided small codebase, and working preferences.
• For the application, link to a project you are proud of and explain something you built because you wanted to.