TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Building and evolving client-facing products and internal platforms with an accent on designing scalable, API-first systems and contributing to a conversational AI platform. Focus on developing distributed systems, improving development workflows, and identifying performance bottlenecks across various layers.

Location: Remote (USA), with office options in Atlanta, GA; Hoboken, NJ; Richardson, TX; San Diego, CA; or Sandy, UT.

Company

%hirify_global% is a global corporation providing software products for customer experiences, financial crime prevention, and public safety, utilized by over 25,000 businesses worldwide.

What you will do

Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to shape product strategy, scope, and technical execution.
Design and build API-first, cloud-native services that integrate with web clients, internal tools, and external partners.
Own projects end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Develop and maintain scalable, distributed systems with a focus on performance, reliability, and security.
Contribute to the evolution of the conversational AI platform, including messaging pipelines, integrations, and data flows.
Write clean, testable code while raising engineering standards and continuously improving development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems.
Strong experience with modern web development, RESTful APIs, relational databases, CI/CD, background jobs, and event-driven systems.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (PHP, Python, TypeScript, React) with solid object-oriented or functional design principles.
Strong understanding of software architecture patterns, system design, and best practices for large-scale applications.
Experience building and operating systems on AWS, including services such as S3, SQS, SNS, SES, Step Functions, RDS, EC2, Kinesis, and Lambda.

%hirify_global% to have

Experience with LLMs, messaging, or customer engagement platforms.
Exposure to high-volume data pipelines or real-time systems.
Prior experience influencing technical direction or mentoring other engineers.

Culture & Benefits

Opportunity to work with an ambitious team that challenges limits and sets high standards.
Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a bias toward action.
Values strong judgment, ownership mindset, and analytical problem-solving.
Global presence with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.
Recognized as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud, and digital.
Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Principal Software Engineer (AI, PHP, Python, React)