Sr. Software Engineer, Backend (AI)

Location: Raleigh, NC; hybrid schedule with in-office work 3 days per week

Salary: $135,000–$150,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a SaaS product company founded in 2013 that builds software to help organizations understand and improve product success.

What you will do

• Own complex, ambiguous customer-facing features from problem definition through delivery, breaking them into independently shippable increments.
• Build reliable, maintainable production code and apply risk-based testing, feature flags, canary releases, and incremental deployments.
• Respond to production issues, identify root causes, and implement improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Use AI tools for code generation, debugging, test writing, and technical task decomposition, while sharing effective practices.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering through code reviews, planning, technical decisions, and clear documentation.
• Improve recurring friction in code, tests, tooling, and development processes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience delivering customer-facing SaaS product features in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Deep understanding of scalable web architecture, API design, and performance optimization.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous technical work into small deliverable increments and drive execution through completion.
• Experience designing and implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, with sound judgment about when to use each approach.
• Familiarity with safe deployment and rollout practices, including feature flags, canary releases, or comparable approaches.
• Active use of AI tools in software development workflows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and effective collaboration across engineering, product, and design teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience improving team-level engineering tooling, development processes, or developer workflows.
• Experience mentoring engineers through technical documentation, constructive code reviews, or knowledge sharing.
• Experience contributing to shared platform capabilities supporting multiple product areas.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid culture with in-office work 3 days per week unless designated remote.
• Employer-heavy health coverage, including $0 premium options.
• Strong 401(k) match, equity, and flexible time off.
• Core values include Bias to Act, Hone Your Craft, The Team is hirify.global, and Maniacal Focus.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to accessibility and reasonable accommodations.