Software Development Engineer III – Front-End (AI-Powered UI Platform)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States of America. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted refugees or asylees.

Base pay for Washington applicants: $164,652.00–$230,512.80 annually; other site ranges may differ.

Company

hirify.global develops reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems and builds digital infrastructure for space exploration.

What you will do

• Own core subsystems of an AI-powered UI platform, including technical design, delivery, roadmap planning, and platform requirements.
• Build capabilities that translate DSL configurations and AI prompts into production-grade React and React Native components.
• Develop reusable component primitives, contract enforcement, parsers, validators, AST-based code generation, and accessibility and security validation.
• Author technical documentation, runbooks, interface specifications, and architectural design documents; lead root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Develop automated tests, developer tooling, telemetry, and metrics for platform reliability and adoption.
• Partner with product managers, internal engineering customers, design system teams, and downstream engineers; provide technical guidance and code-review feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience shipping production-grade web applications.
• Strong expertise in modern JavaScript ES6+ and TypeScript, with deep hands-on React experience including lifecycle, hooks, state management, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL queries and mutations, schemas, and caching, plus REST APIs.
• Experience owning the technical design and end-to-end delivery of a system, library, or core project feature.
• Experience building reusable UI component libraries, developer tools, or shared front-end platform modules.
• Understanding of responsive layouts, cross-browser compatibility, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards.
• Track record of operational excellence including root-cause analysis, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Must meet the stated U.S. citizenship, permanent-residency, refugee, or asylum-status requirement.

Nice to have

• React Native experience or strong interest in cross-platform web and mobile architectures.
• Generative AI or LLM APIs, prompt orchestration, or AI-assisted development tools.
• Compilers, Abstract Syntax Trees, Babel or SWC plugins, or Domain-Specific Languages.
• Front-end build tooling, monorepo tooling, and bundlers such as Vite, Webpack, or Turborepo.
• Node.js and AWS cloud infrastructure experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety, collaboration, inclusion, innovation, engineering discipline, operational excellence, and technical ownership are emphasized.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability coverage, paid parental leave, and an Education Support Program.
• 401(k) with company matching of up to 5% and stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Standard background checks are required; additional checks may apply to certain job profiles.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
• Applicants may contact the publicly managed EEO compliance inbox for reasonable accommodation requests without including personal medical information.