Staff Software Engineer 2 (AI)

Location: Remote-first within Brazil, with an option to work from the São Paulo office. Work From Anywhere is available for up to 90 days per year.

Company

hirify.global is a Latin American real estate ecosystem building technology and AI solutions to simplify the housing journey across six countries.

What you will do

• Define company-wide architectural strategies and guide technical evolution across multiple engineering domains.
• Build resilient foundations for low-latency conversational journeys, multi-agent orchestration, distributed event streams, and real-time ML processing.
• Translate ambiguous business goals into execution roadmaps and drive multi-quarter technical initiatives to global impact.
• Establish engineering policies and align autonomous teams on unified technical strategies.
• Identify structural bottlenecks, resolve complex technical conflicts, and improve reliability, cost, complexity, and delivery velocity.
• Mentor Senior and Staff Engineers, lead technical guilds or working groups, and raise the engineering bar.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecting and delivering high-volume, high-concurrency, mission-critical distributed systems at organizational scale.
• Proven ownership of cross-organizational architectural roadmaps, engineering policies, and long-term multi-team systems evolution.
• Strong systemic problem-solving skills, including breaking down ambiguous company-level problems and managing reliability, cost, complexity, and velocity trade-offs.
• Experience formally mentoring Senior and Staff Engineers and fostering an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture.
• Ability to align autonomous teams, lead structural discussions, and resolve technical conflicts across squads and business units.
• Deep expertise in distributed data consistency, asynchronous event-driven design, fault tolerance, and data-intensive backends prepared for high-throughput AI/ML integration.
• Fluency in Portuguese and excellent English skills are mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience architecting enterprise platforms for autonomous multi-agent systems, real-time LLM inference pipelines, or massive data-streaming ecosystems.
• Experience leading legacy migrations and decoupling mission-critical monoliths into distributed architectures without downtime or business disruption.
• Expertise in cloud economics and FinOps, including cost governance and capacity planning.
• Participation in technology communities, open-source projects, or industry publications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first technology organization with home-office and São Paulo office options.
• Competitive salary, profit sharing, meal allowance, and home-office allowance.
• Health, dental, and life insurance, plus an employee assistance program covering mental, social, legal, and financial support.
• Childcare and atypical parenthood subsidies, extended parental leave, and Wellhub.
• Birthday, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day off, benefits discounts, educational institution discounts, and a children's reading kit.
• Inclusive workplace with diversity-focused hiring and practices.

Hiring process

• Application and technical CV screening.
• People interview with recruiters, followed by a technical screening with an architecture live case.
• Technical interviews include code and architecture live cases and an assessment of technical leadership, followed by an offer.