Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, based in the UK, Spain or Portugal. Working abroad is available for 4 weeks per year within a +/- 3 hour time zone.

Company

hirify.global builds travel technology that helps hotels develop direct customer relationships, reduce reliance on online travel agencies, and operate a highly scaled platform serving around 10,000 hotels and processing approximately 30 million guest events per day.

What you will do

• Build, grow and maintain frontend and backend components across autonomous product-engineering squads, with a backend focus.
• Lead substantial technical work end to end and make technical decisions by evaluating trade-offs and aligning the squad.
• Use coding agents in daily development, defining inputs, reviewing outputs and improving specifications, tests and guardrails.
• Design and maintain distributed, highly available and high-throughput systems with consistent data.
• Ship and monitor production software through delivery pipelines, A/B testing and observability.
• Work closely with product managers and customers to validate assumptions and make informed product decisions.

Requirements

• Daily experience building with coding agents, including explaining what is delegated, retained and verified.
• Systematic verification practices: test-first development, risk-based review, and improving specifications, tests or rules when defects are found.
• Multiple examples of leading substantial work end to end where ownership was clear.
• Ability to lead technical decisions, communicate trade-offs and bring the team along.
• Experience sharing an agent-based way of working through skills, guardrails or specifications adopted by a team.
• Collaborative, open-minded and comfortable pairing for most of the day.
• Experience building distributed, highly available and high-throughput systems that maintain data consistency.
• Comfortable working across client-side and server-side development, with a backend focus; tests drive design.
• Experience with delivery pipelines, A/B testing and monitoring, plus a customer-centric approach to product decisions.

Nice to have

• Public Git repositories demonstrating work with coding agents, including agent rules, skills, specifications or a development harness.
• Experience building for agentic clients, such as MCP servers and APIs.
• Entrepreneurial experience identifying an opportunity and making it happen.
• Experience with several programming languages and applying ideas from other ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, autonomous squads of 2–6 people with shared ownership of strategy and delivery.
• Pair programming, trunk-based development, continuous delivery, daily standups, weekly planning, retrospectives and regular feedback.
• Paid vacation, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, life-event leave, childcare flexibility and sabbaticals from year three.
• Monthly health and wellbeing allowance, yearly learning allowance after probation, and a volunteering day.
• Quarterly review socials, weekly company showcases, learning initiatives and a strong focus on diversity, inclusion and psychological safety.
• Hotel visits and travel research budgets, plus flexibility through remote or hybrid working.