Principle Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Houten, The Netherlands

Company

hirify.global develops a SaaS-first orchestration platform for autonomous enterprise operations, automating mission-critical business and IT processes across ERP, hybrid cloud, data, and agentic AI systems.

What you will do

• Lead the architecture and implementation of large-scale distributed systems for the RunMyJobs platform, emphasizing resilience, low latency, and fault tolerance.
• Translate business needs into scalable, resilient full-stack solutions and lead projects from concept through delivery.
• Provide architectural direction through code and design reviews, technical standards, and enforcement of software architecture strategy.
• Apply prompt engineering and generative AI tools to produce unit and integration tests, technical documentation, refactoring suggestions, and code.
• Enhance cloud build, test, deployment, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, monitoring, and anomaly-detection capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, architecture, finance, and customer success teams while mentoring engineers without direct people-management responsibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• More than eight years of software development experience, including three to five years in a senior or staff software engineer role.
• Proven experience with workload automation, job scheduling, and orchestration technologies.
• Deep proficiency in Java 11/17+ and modern frameworks and libraries.
• Strong experience with microservice architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, RESTful API design, cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and SQL/NoSQL databases and data modelling.
• Experience with ReactJS, MobX, TypeScript, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub, Jira, and Bamboo from Atlassian.
• Proficiency with JUnit, Jest, and Playwright, with a focus on QA automation and testability by design.
• Commitment to engineering best practices, code reviews, static analysis, continuous quality improvement, and systemic architectural integrity.
• Production proficiency with AI-powered developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or CodeWhisperer; ability to evaluate and override technically correct but architecturally flawed or insecure suggestions.
• Experience writing clear, contextual prompts for generating usable code, tests, or documentation, plus curiosity and proactive learning of new AI tools and techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an agile environment focused on engineering excellence, continuous improvement, innovation, and technical rigor.
• Core values include teamwork, customer success, problem solving, curiosity, ownership, and mutual respect.
• Senior individual contributor position with broad technical ownership and no direct people-management responsibilities.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable local data protection laws, including GDPR.