Staff Fullstack Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in American Fork, Utah; must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-driven intelligent site technology, combining mobile solar-powered field units with an Agentic AI platform for safety, compliance, and operational visibility.

What you will do

• Set technical direction across React, Next.js, BFF, GraphQL APIs, backend data systems, and real-time edge flows.
• Drive cross-service architecture, resolve systemic issues across frontend, backend subgraphs, and authorization layers, and ship complex core components.
• Own GraphQL federation health, data contracts, schema evolution, and migration paths.
• Define SLOs, tracing, dashboards, and reliability practices for WebSocket and device-control paths.
• Mentor frontend and backend engineers, lead design discussions, and align stakeholders on large-scale technical initiatives.
• Improve type safety, CI/CD performance, legacy-system deprecation, and on-call developer experience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional development experience using TypeScript across client and server applications.
• Production experience leading complex architectures with React and Next.js App Router.
• Deep experience designing and operating Node.js backend services; NestJS is preferred within the required stack experience.
• Strong GraphQL expertise, including Apollo Server, schema design, federation, subscriptions, and N+1/DataLoader patterns.
• Experience with relational databases, preferably MySQL, plus query builders or ORMs such as Knex and database migrations.
• Working knowledge of scaling WebSocket-based real-time data flows.
• Understanding of OAuth/OIDC, JWT, ABAC/ReBAC, Docker, container orchestration, and fast, reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills for testing, refactoring, and safely navigating undocumented legacy React and Webpack codebases.
• Technical leadership and communication skills for aligning engineering teams and business stakeholders on multi-quarter strategies.

Nice to have

• RabbitMQ, MQTT, Cedar, OPA, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Coralogix, Turbo, Bun, or physical security and video streaming platform experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Growth-oriented, hands-on engineering environment focused on innovation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match of up to 4%.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Full-time employment with required drug screening and background checks; some roles may require federal background checks and fingerprinting.