Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Chicago, United States of America

Salary: $110,000–$160,000 per year for the Chicago location; the range may vary for other locations.

Company

hirify.global develops a precision medicine platform that connects real-world evidence with AI-powered insights for cancer research, treatment, and clinical care.

What you will do

• Analyze and design complex technical problems and architect robust systems for Genomics AI initiatives.
• Build high-quality full-stack applications using modern AI tooling, Generative AI APIs, and agentic workflows.
• Design and implement distributed microservice architectures and mission-critical enterprise systems.
• Optimize relational data systems, caching solutions, and application performance.
• Orchestrate applications and infrastructure on GCP, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Make architectural decisions, drive cross-team technical initiatives, resolve complex engineering challenges, and mentor emerging talent.

Requirements

• 5+ years of advanced TypeScript/JavaScript development, including deep knowledge of language features and optimization techniques.
• Extensive experience architecting and leading development with Node.js and NestJS.
• Expert-level React experience designing and implementing complex component systems.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI coding tools and autonomous agents such as Copilot, Cursor, or LLM APIs, including code refactoring and automated unit/integration test generation.
• Experience or strong working knowledge integrating LLM APIs and GenAI technologies into production applications.
• Advanced PostgreSQL skills covering query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning.
• Expertise implementing Redis caching solutions for high-throughput systems.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing distributed microservice architectures.
• Significant experience orchestrating infrastructure and applications on GCP, including CI/CD pipelines, plus mastery of enterprise-level design patterns.
• 7+ years of software development experience with a track record of technical leadership; strong communication, stakeholder presentation, cross-team leadership, and complex project delivery skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Background in biotech, genomics, or precision medicine.
• Experience leading cloud migrations, such as AWS to GCP.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in small, autonomous teams with developers, designers, scientists, and product managers collaborating closely.
• Direct ownership of solutions supporting cancer research and treatment.
• Agile development practices and modern architecture focused on quality and scalability.
• Full-time employment with benefits that may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical coverage, and other benefits depending on the position.
• Equal opportunity employment with no discrimination based on protected characteristics.