Staff Software Engineer - .NET AI Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; at least 3 days per week in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $133,300–$213,400 USD per year, potentially including sales incentives; bonus and equity may also apply.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, QA, operations, compliance, and other stakeholders to define requirements and translate them into system designs.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, extensible, and reusable software components for fintech products.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews while driving coding standards, quality metrics, testing, and defect prevention.
• Debug moderately complex and production issues, support incident response and on-call rotations, and identify automation opportunities.
• Build and improve developer tools, monitoring, data analysis, and application support capabilities.
• Estimate project delivery costs, identify risks, and communicate issues that may affect timelines.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, at least 2 years with an advanced degree, no experience with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant experience without the degree conditions.
• 6+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in .NET and C#.
• Hands-on experience with LangChain, RAG architectures, LLM API integration, prompt engineering, agentic AI patterns, and familiarity with intent classification and NLP pipelines.
• Strong backend development and REST API experience, including system and API integrations and distributed applications.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, SQL, and MongoDB, including database design, queries, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing and developing scalable enterprise applications, analyzing and programming computer applications, and debugging and modifying software programs.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, production support, problem-solving, and independent-working skills.
• Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, software testing, troubleshooting, and technical documentation.

Nice to have

• 6 or more years of experience with a bachelor’s degree, 4 or more years with an advanced degree, or up to 3 years with a PhD.
• Front-end development experience with ReactJS.
• Agentic development using Claude Code or similar tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid office work with at least 3 days in the office, confirmed by the Hiring Manager.
• Work hours vary according to department needs.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
• The role includes approximately 60–75% hands-on coding and requires use of emerging technologies, including generative AI tools.
• The position is performed in an office setting and requires regular in-person communication and operation of standard office equipment.

Hiring process

• Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to legally protected characteristics, consistent with applicable law.