Senior Backend Engineer (AI Platform)

Location: Bnei Brak, Israel; hybrid, flexible work environment.

Company

hirify.global is a global software company building AI-powered digital experiences from conversational agents, enterprise knowledge, rich media, and data.

What you will do

• Design, build, own, and operate backend services and platform components from architecture and API design through production and on-call.
• Build high-throughput, low-latency services for real-time streaming and batch or offline consumers.
• Define service contracts, versioning, and extension points for reusable multi-team platform components.
• Drive reliability, observability, performance, tracing, metrics, alerting, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Lead technical design reviews and evaluate build-versus-adopt decisions for open-source and third-party tooling.
• Mentor engineers and partner with AI research and customer-facing teams to turn prototypes into production systems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on backend development building production systems at scale, with Python as a primary language.
• Deep distributed-systems experience, including microservices, API design, asynchronous processing, message queues or event streaming, caching, and concurrency.
• Strong data-layer skills with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
• Production cloud experience with AWS or GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Experience building shared infrastructure consumed by other teams, such as gateways, registries, SDKs, or internal platforms.
• Strong system-design skills and judgment balancing latency, cost, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph, agent patterns, or MCP.

Nice to have

• Platform-level observability with Langfuse or similar, including structured per-request tracing.
• Experience with RAG, vector databases, or evaluation frameworks for LLM systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into backend systems through model APIs, tool or function calling, retrieval, and prompt handling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible work environment.
• Extended private health insurance, including mental health coverage.
• Personal and professional development programs.
• Occasional cross-company long weekends.
• Openness, flexibility, collaboration, initiative, and opportunities to make an impact and grow.