Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Mexico City, Mexico; hybrid work model

Company

hirify.global provides specialized software, trusted content, and insights for legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media professionals across more than 70 countries.

What you will do

• Build and architect AI agentic systems and scalable production features for CoCounsel Legal litigation drafting products.
• Lead technical strategy, experimentation, testing, rollout practices, operational excellence, and architecture decisions.
• Design backend services with Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL for real-time AI agentic interactions, including agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and content pipelines.
• Define service boundaries, system interfaces, and scalable design patterns for the AI platform, while supporting complex agentic UI delivery using SSE, AG-UI, Claude Agent SDK, and AgentCore.
• Integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, and other modern LLM providers with routing, error handling, guardrails, telemetry, and deep observability.
• Mentor engineers, collaborate with Labs, product managers, designers, and engineering leaders, and strengthen CI/CD and DevOps automation.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in technical leadership and 3+ years building scalable cloud applications, APIs, and AI-enabled products.
• Experience shipping production-grade AI systems to enterprise customers, including deployment, monitoring, evaluation, scaling, and ongoing operational ownership.
• Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and AWS or Azure cloud services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, architecture, and data modelling.
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for production web applications using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CodePipeline, or similar, including automated testing and safe release practices.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, strategic thinking, problem-solving, cross-functional communication, product sense, and the ability to work from ambiguous requirements.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and presenting technical decisions.

Nice to have

• BA or BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and information retrieval.
• Hands-on experience with AG-UI or comparable agent-UI protocols and SDKs, and strong proficiency in SSE events.
• Knowledge of backend streaming patterns using Node or Python/FastAPI sufficient to debug end to end.
• Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch Log Insights, and Braintrust.
• Experience building products for legal, compliance, or other regulated professional domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment for office-based roles.
• Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year as part of flexible work arrangements.
• Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days, Headspace access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, incentive programs, and wellbeing resources.
• Continuous learning and career development through Grow My Way programming and skills-first development.
• Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
• Inclusive culture focused on customer impact, rapid learning, collaboration, work-life balance, and belonging.