Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: $202,500–$274,000 base pay annually in Mountain View; additional cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits may apply.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform providing products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of foundational Sandbox capabilities for customers, partners, and developers across hirify.global products.
• Drive end-to-end technology initiatives and horizontal platform capabilities spanning multiple products and engineering teams.
• Architect and implement secure, scalable, reliable, and highly available cloud-native platform solutions.
• Use AI to build intelligent Sandbox experiences, automate complex workflows, and accelerate platform innovation.
• Define evaluation strategies and success metrics for AI-powered capabilities, covering customer experience, accuracy, and reliability.
• Influence technical priorities, resolve cross-team dependencies, mentor engineers, and champion engineering practices in quality, testing, observability, security, and operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years designing, developing, and delivering scalable software systems in large-scale enterprise environments, including 5+ years architecting distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, or enterprise business applications.
• Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with Java, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Node.js/Express, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, API design, microservices, data management, performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native applications on AWS or GCP, including cloud infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.
• Experience with AI technologies and frameworks such as LLMs, LangChain, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, Python, or prompt engineering.
• Ability to design extensible platforms, developer tools, or environments for safe experimentation, testing, and integration.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements and customer needs into durable technical solutions and influence architecture across teams.
• Ability to mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Ownership of complex challenges beyond immediate team responsibilities, with continuous learning, experimentation, and adoption of emerging technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience designing extensible Sandbox platforms, developer tools, or experimentation environments is highly desirable.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with a pay-for-performance rewards approach.
• Potential eligibility for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
• Compensation considers job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.
• Ongoing pay comparisons across ethnicity and gender support fair pay practices.