Senior Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (AI): Designing, building, and maintaining core services, infrastructure, and tools for a microservices HR platform with an accent on operational excellence, performance optimization, and robust reusable components. Focus on leveraging AI-assisted development workflows, designing scalable abstractions, and ensuring system reliability under heavy traffic.

Location: Hybrid in Israel

Company

hirify.global helps modern, mid-size businesses transform how they manage people with an intuitive, data-driven HR platform.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain core services, infrastructure, and tools for all feature teams.
• Enable feature teams to build and scale their microservices reliably and efficiently.
• Own the development cycle from technical design through coding, defining SLOs/SLIs, deployment, and monitoring.
• Leverage AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based environments) for rapid prototyping, debugging, and system evolution.
• Translate ambiguous problem statements into iterative prompts, guiding AI agents to generate high-quality, maintainable code.
• Blend traditional software engineering practices with modern AI tooling to accelerate delivery without compromising architecture, reliability, or security.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong emphasis on backend development.
• Strong command of a backend language (Java/Kotlin/Go/Python) and its runtime (GC, threading, memory).
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, networking, and OS basics.
• Hands-on experience with concurrency, multithreading, and async patterns.
• Ability to design clean, stable, and ergonomic APIs and build reusable, versioned internal libraries/frameworks.
• Strong practical experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), indexing, query optimization, and distributed storage/message systems (Redis, Kafka, Elastic/OpenSearch).
• Experience designing and operating systems at scale (high throughput, low latency, multi-tenant), skilled in performance optimization, profiling, and bottleneck identification.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, leveraging tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar LLM-based environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model with work from home allowance.
• Company share options plan and pre-IPO equity.
• Payment for sick leave from the first day and 2 social impact days per year for volunteering.
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits.
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment).
• Transportation allowance and dog-friendly office.
• Fun company and team social events, plus 4 additional Bob balance days per year.