Senior Principal Engineer (AI)

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Company

hirify.global operates a large Southeast Asian digital ecosystem spanning mobility, food delivery, e-commerce, financial services, and digital products.

What you will do

• Transform the software development lifecycle across Consumer Experience & Integrity into an AI-native engineering model covering design, implementation, testing, deployment, operations, and incident response.
• Architect high-throughput, highly available distributed systems for critical consumer and integrity experiences, addressing scalability, reliability, resilience, performance, security, and cost.
• Build shared platform primitives across mobility, food delivery, e-commerce, financial services, and digital products.
• Establish reference architectures, engineering principles, reusable patterns, and technical guardrails that enable autonomous teams.
• Shape technical strategy, communicate architectural trade-offs, and influence senior engineering and product leaders across CXI.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and system design, including at least 5 years in a principal engineer or architect role at large-scale technology companies.
• Hands-on experience driving AI-enabled engineering transformation, including coding agents, agentic workflows, automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and engineering guardrails.
• Experience embedding AI tools into real engineering teams and using GenAI for design, documentation, code review, technical analysis, productivity, and workflow improvement.
• Experience architecting and scaling large distributed systems serving millions of users with demanding production reliability, availability, and performance requirements.
• Experience building or leading shared platform capabilities adopted across multiple products, business lines, or engineering organisations, with measurable impact on engineering velocity or system reliability.
• Experience leading cross-team architectural initiatives and influencing senior engineers and engineering leaders without direct reporting authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the Consumer Experience & Integrity organisation across Trust, Safety, Identity, SuperApp architecture, Loyalty & Subscriptions, Agentic Customer Support, Communications, Home Page Personalisation, and Growth.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, engineering leaders, product leaders, and data scientists.
• Report to the Head of Technology, Integrity & COREX.
• Contribute to technology and AI initiatives supporting hirify.global's mission of economically empowering Southeast Asia.