Senior IA Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Porto, Portugal; hybrid work with 2 days onsite and 3 days remote

Company

hirify.global develops software that simplifies and digitizes the automotive customer journey for manufacturers and dealerships.

What you will do

• Lead daily adoption of AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code across development, testing, documentation, and code review.
• Configure agent rules, instructions, prompt libraries, context files, and reusable workflows; identify repetitive tasks suitable for agentic automation.
• Develop and maintain applications across C#/.NET and legacy technologies including COBOL, Delphi, PowerBuilder, FoxPro, and WinDev.
• Use AI agents to analyze, document, explain, maintain, and modernize legacy code, business rules, and data flows.
• Contribute to migrations toward modern architectures while preserving business logic and shaping the modern stack.
• Build backend and frontend features, participate in code reviews, maintain CI/CD and cloud deployments, and collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of professional software development experience.
• Hands-on daily experience with AI coding agents, including configuration and rule or instruction management.
• Experience building agentic workflows, MCP servers, or custom AI tooling.
• Genuine willingness to work with legacy technologies, including COBOL, Delphi, PowerBuilder, FoxPro, and WinDev.
• Solid experience with at least one modern stack, ideally C#/.NET and/or React, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Practical experience writing automated unit, integration, and/or end-to-end tests.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile practices.
• Fluent English is mandatory. Curiosity, analytical and problem-solving ability, clear communication, collaboration, ownership, and willingness to mentor less experienced engineers are required.

Nice to have

• Previous experience with COBOL, Delphi, PowerBuilder, FoxPro, or WinDev.
• Experience with legacy modernization or migration projects.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or Docker.
• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, or Newman.
• French and/or Spanish language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid schedule: 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.
• 14 annual payments: 12 monthly payments plus summer and Christmas bonuses.
• €10.20 meal voucher per working day.
• 23 vacation days plus 24th or 31st December off.
• Private Multicare medical insurance, language training, team activities, and recruitment-process support for people with disabilities.

Hiring process

• 15-minute introductory call with a Talent Acquisition Specialist.
• Meeting with the Hiring Manager.
• Technical interview including a discussion of daily AI-agent usage.