Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, US; hybrid work with 2 days in the office per week

Base salary: $279,000–$341,000, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds earned wage access and other financial products that provide real-time financial flexibility without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. The company is becoming AI-native while maintaining privacy, security, and regulatory guardrails.

What you will do

• Own architecture spanning business units, including domain boundaries, cross-cutting concerns, product logic, policy, and funds flow.
• Lead cross-business-unit design and architecture reviews and document decisions in architecture decision records.
• Drive decomposition and unification roadmaps for shared systems, including user-state boundaries and incremental adoption plans.
• Build deprecation, experiment cleanup, and clear ownership into system design to prevent accumulated complexity.
• Partner with Platform, Money Platform, and business-unit engineering leads to establish practical, non-duplicated standards.
• Use AI tools for design, code analysis, and review; develop agents, skills, documentation, guardrails, and review practices for responsible AI-assisted development.
• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers, support hiring and onboarding, and represent engineering in discussions with product, risk, and leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of backend or full-stack software development experience, including designing and evolving large distributed systems.
• Experience defining domain boundaries and service contracts across multiple teams, with practical knowledge of domain-driven design, event-driven systems, and clean architecture.
• Hands-on daily use of AI coding and design tools, with concrete examples of their impact on working practices and results.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives, influencing without direct authority, and resolving disagreements between teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining complex trade-offs through clear decisions and documentation.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-driven environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated, high-reliability environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity and benefits.
• AI tools are encouraged throughout much of the interview process, although some career-history and experience rounds prohibit AI use in advance.
• Inclusive culture focused on diversity, belonging, and representing the community served.
• Financial products are developed with privacy, security, and regulatory guardrails.

Hiring process

• AI may be used during live interviews, with a brief explanation of how and why it was used; some rounds will not allow AI and will identify this in advance.
• hirify.global does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies.