Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Portugal; remote-first work from anywhere in Brazil, with optional access to the São Paulo office. The Work From Anywhere program allows working from any country for up to 90 days per year.

Company

hirify.global is a Latin American real estate ecosystem building technology and AI solutions to simplify the housing journey.

What you will do

• Drive technical execution and build systems for high-impact distribution problems.
• Design scalable and resilient systems for low-latency conversational journeys, microservices orchestration, and real-time ML processing.
• Lead delivery of high-volume, high-concurrency, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Analyze and articulate engineering trade-offs involving simplicity, flexibility, velocity, reliability, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Remove collaboration barriers, conduct difficult structural conversations, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
• Join a unified selection process and explore the engineering team best matched to your experience and interests.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, including delivery leadership for high-volume, high-concurrency, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of modern software architecture paradigms, distributed data consistency, fault tolerance, and system optimization.
• Understanding of data-intensive applications and readiness to build architectures supporting Machine Learning and AI features at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and clearly communicate engineering trade-offs.
• Ability to remove collaboration barriers, conduct difficult structural conversations, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
• Fluent Portuguese and excellent English are mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience designing architectures that integrate natively with LLMs, multi-agent AI systems, or heavy data pipelines.
• Strong FinOps and cost-optimization experience in high-throughput cloud environments.
• Experience migrating legacy monoliths to highly decoupled, event-driven architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model with optional access to the São Paulo office and a Work From Anywhere program for up to 90 days per year.
• Competitive salary, profit sharing, meal allowance, home office allowance, and benefits club discounts.
• Health, dental, and life insurance; Wellhub; and an employee assistance program covering mental, social, legal, and financial support.
• Childcare and atypical parenthood subsidies, extended parental leave, and days off for birthdays, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day.
• Educational institution discounts and a reading kit for children.
• Inclusive workplace open to all individuals; diversity information may be used for affirmative-action eligibility or anonymously for inclusion monitoring.

Hiring process

• Complete the application; communication is conducted by email, so allow messages from the @hirify.global.com.br domain.
• Stages: application, technical CV screening, recruiter people interview, engineering technical screening with a live coding case, technical interviews with live architecture cases and technical leadership assessment, and offer.