Lead Fullstack Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Arlington, Virginia; candidates must live in or be willing to relocate to the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Salary: $160,000–$225,000 per year plus performance bonuses and stock options.

Company

hirify.global is an AI and optimization company developing advanced software systems for complex operational environments.

What you will do

• Lead technical architecture and hands-on development across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design and build sophisticated interactive web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs using Rust and PostgreSQL.
• Build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure with AWS or Azure and Terraform.
• Define API contracts, data models, integration patterns, and engineering standards for performance, security, testing, and reliability.
• Lead design and code reviews, collaborate with product stakeholders, and mentor engineers while remaining an active contributor.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical architecture and hands-on development leadership.
• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript and experience building complex interactive web applications.
• Production backend engineering experience with Rust.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, relational databases, and API design.
• Experience designing and deploying production applications on AWS or Azure, plus Terraform and infrastructure as code.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, authentication, authorization, security, and scalability.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions and collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, or Staff Engineer, and experience taking complex products from prototype to production.
• Experience with Mapbox, MapLibre, deck.gl, or similar mapping and geospatial visualization libraries.
• Experience building real-time, data-intensive, or highly interactive applications and reusable UI component libraries or design systems.
• Experience with WebSockets, server-sent events, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or other cloud-native technologies.
• Experience operating secure applications in regulated environments or building interfaces for analytics, optimization, or AI/ML systems.
• Active or previously held U.S. government security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Significant technical ownership and influence over architectural decisions.
• Hands-on engineering role focused on writing code and solving complex technical challenges, not management only.
• Performance bonuses and stock options.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees.
• Flexible hybrid work environment and opportunities for professional growth and leadership.