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

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.

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• 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.