Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Shanghai or Chengdu, China; hybrid schedule requiring 1 day per week in the office. Other listed locations include Singapore.

Company

hirify.global is a Series B, high-growth HR technology company building an all-in-one HR, payroll, and hiring platform for hourly workers and local businesses.

What you will do

• Architect and deliver strategic engineering initiatives spanning multiple squads, coordinating parallel execution across engineers and AI agents.
• Own multi-squad systems architecture and set technical direction for scalable, secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Solve organization-wide engineering challenges, improve architecture, and drive long-term reliability.
• Lead critical technical escalations and complex system incidents through recovery and remediation.
• Shape AI adoption through AI-assisted development, automated incident response, and production safeguards.
• Partner with engineering, Product, and business leaders; establish best practices and mentor technical leads.

Requirements

• 10–12+ years of experience building, architecting, and scaling complex production software systems.
• Deep expertise in at least one mainstream programming language, including JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, or C#, with the ability to work across technology stacks.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, problem-solving ability, and architectural design skills.
• Experience owning complex systems and driving architecture and technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, security, performance, and architectural trade-offs.
• Experience leading high-impact engineering projects, managing critical technical escalations, and making decisions under pressure.
• Strong strategic thinking and communication skills, including the ability to influence engineering direction and align technical decisions with business objectives.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and technical leads, build ownership, and improve technical capabilities across teams.
• Experience driving engineering improvements, technical standards, and organizational adoption of new technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby on Rails or Node.js; experience with both is a plus.
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Terraform, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows, agent-driven development, or AI-powered incident management.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, value-based company focused on empowering deskless workers and local businesses.
• Early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup with access to the founding team and industry veterans.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive health coverage, flexible PTO, and in-office amenities.
• Hybrid office/work-from-home schedule.