Staff+ Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, with working hours within GMT +/-3 hours

Company

hirify.global develops an AI-powered video and conversation intelligence platform used by large enterprises, enabling real-time video conversations and feedback at scale.

What you will do

• Define multi-year technical strategy and convert it into an executable platform roadmap aligned with business outcomes.
• Lead the design and production delivery of critical systems, including the AI conversation pipeline, data architecture, and multi-tenant platform.
• Make and defend high-impact decisions on build versus buy, data models, service boundaries, and platform choices.
• Set standards for reliability, security, observability, performance, and cost across the platform.
• Improve the engineering organisation through hiring, leveling, mentoring, and technical leadership.
• Stay hands-on by building prototypes, coding critical components, supporting enterprise security and architecture reviews, and leading high-stakes incidents.

Requirements

• Formal Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior technical leadership experience with impact across multiple teams or the broader engineering organisation.
• Experience setting and delivering technical strategy or major architectural direction while aligning engineers and leadership without formal authority.
• Experience designing and owning production systems handling significant load, data, or complexity, including migrations, re-architectures, incidents, and long-term consequences.
• Experience leading production incidents from response and root-cause analysis through systemic fixes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop engineers into senior or Staff-level contributors and introduce durable engineering standards or practices.
• Exceptional written communication, including design and strategy documents that influence decisions.
• Regular production coding experience and deep expertise in at least one of distributed systems, data infrastructure, or frontend architecture, with enough cross-stack fluency to make sound technical decisions.
• Deep AWS and infrastructure experience, including production cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and observability at scale.
• Not suitable for candidates seeking their first Staff role, who have not regularly written production code in the last two years, or whose experience is limited to a narrow specialism without broad technical ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating AI or LLM-powered products in production, including evaluation, latency, cost, and reliability trade-offs.
• Enterprise B2B SaaS experience at scale, including multi-tenancy, SSO, data isolation, and SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR compliance.
• Production experience with event-driven and streaming architectures such as Kafka.
• Experience taking a platform and engineering team through rapid startup growth.
• Public technical work, including talks, writing, or meaningful open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with a private office in Temple/Strand, London for collaboration and team lunches.
• Quarterly international team offsites.
• Six weeks of paid annual leave.
• Top-of-market Staff+ salary depending on level, plus significant equity.
• Direct influence on company technical direction while working with the CEO and leadership team.

Hiring process

• Three-week process consisting of a technical leadership conversation, an engineering conversation, a 1.5-hour take-home assignment, a 1.5-hour system deep dive or design problem, a cross-functional product leadership panel, and a final CEO conversation with references.
• References will include people who worked with the candidate at Staff level.
• Application-process adjustments or support are available on request.