Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; hybrid work with at least 3 days onsite in the Amsterdam office

Company

hirify.global builds AI solutions that help audit and finance professionals trace and verify evidence, with more than 600,000 professionals across 3,000+ organizations in 175 countries using its platform.

What you will do

• Write production code for the most complex and critical parts of Alwin, including its agent harness, orchestration, tools, context, and evaluation loops.
• Prototype new agent capabilities and take successful experiments through to production.
• Build reliable agents for a regulated domain with grounding, pre-release evaluation, human oversight, and traceability of every action.
• Create shared platform capabilities, tooling, and feedback loops that help teams detect failures, prevent regressions, and ship production-ready agents faster.
• Resolve high-impact incidents, make model cost, latency, and accuracy trade-offs measurable, and design for future scale.
• Lead by example through code, reviews, technical direction, mentoring, product collaboration, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including strong production-grade Python and continued hands-on coding.
• Deep hands-on experience building and shipping agentic or LLM systems in production, including control loops, tool calling, context engineering, and evaluation.
• A record of personally solving ambiguous, high-impact problems across teams and delivering measurable results through systems or practices adopted by others.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership beyond the immediate team.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, software architecture, and data modeling on a major cloud platform.
• Experience with security, access control, and auditability for enterprise or regulated customers.
• Product sense and the ability to influence product and engineering direction through evidence and clear trade-offs without formal authority.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted engineering and experience driving its adoption beyond personal work.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences across time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience building platforms used by other teams and customers.
• Multi-agent orchestration or durable, long-running workflows at scale.
• Retrieval and knowledge systems or document processing, including OCR, classification, and structured extraction.
• Collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineers, Solution Architects, and GTM teams on enterprise rollouts.
• Experience at a scale-up undergoing rapid growth.
• Domain experience in audit, accounting, or fintech.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with at least 3 days onsite in the Amsterdam office.
• Equity through Stock Appreciation Rights and a pension plan with a 6% contribution on top of base salary.
• 28 vacation days per year for full-time employment.
• Continuous learning and development initiatives, mental health and wellness support, and daily prepared lunches.
• NS business card for commuting where applicable, plus an international team across five global offices and company-wide events.

Hiring process

• Recruitment screen, 30 minutes online.
• Hiring manager interview, 30 minutes online, followed by a 75-minute live coding interview online.
• System design interview, 60 minutes onsite, followed by a 30-minute final interview online.