Principal Software Engineer (AI/Fintech)

Location: Guadalajara, Mexico; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global is a Mexican fintech company operating BNPL, online consumer credit, and payment products including hirify.global Pay and hirify.global Cash.

What you will do

• Define multi-year technical strategy and architectural standards across hirify.global Pay, hirify.global Cash, and shared platforms.
• Establish scalable, reliable, maintainable architectures incorporating compliance, fraud prevention, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Own the AI-native transformation roadmap, including the safe integration of AI agents with existing systems and the AI-native SDLC.
• Lead high-stakes AI capabilities into production with measurable business impact and governance from Risk, Compliance, and Security.
• Set technical direction for the AI Enabling Team, coach and sponsor Staff and Senior engineers, and influence senior talent development.
• Communicate technical direction to executives and represent hirify.global’s engineering organization externally.

Requirements

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years at Staff, Principal, or equivalent technical-leadership scope across multiple teams.
• Track record defining and delivering multi-year architecture for high-scale, distributed, transactional systems.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, financial domain modeling covering money movement, ledgering, and identity, observability, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.
• Measurable impact on reliability, including CFR, MTTR, incident reduction, cost of ownership, or delivery speed.
• Several years designing and shipping production ML/AI systems at scale, including agentic or LLM-based systems.
• Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps tooling and production observability for AI.
• Results-backed perspective on transforming a legacy engineering organization into an AI-native organization.
• Experience partnering directly with C-level leaders and translating strategy into technical roadmaps.
• Proven record of growing senior engineers into Staff-level leaders.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Spanish.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, lending, or another regulated industry.
• Hands-on experience with security, fraud, and compliance, ideally shipping AI for credit, risk, collections, fraud, or underwriting.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture focused on innovation, collaboration, impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to ethical business practices and inclusion of qualified candidates.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the hiring process upon request.