Principal Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (AI): Driving technical strategy, architectural coherence, and engineering excellence across several key product areas with an accent on balancing immediate execution needs with long-term scalability. Focus on establishing organization-wide technical standards, providing expert architectural guidance, and building high-scale distributed systems.

Location: Remote (US)

Company

hirify.global is a leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps brands create dynamic, individualized experiences at scale.

What you will do

• Serve as the technical authority for multiple core product areas, ensuring architectural decisions directly support business objectives.
• Establish and maintain organization-wide technical standards, architectural patterns, and coding best practices.
• Provide expert architectural guidance and data-driven recommendations to leadership and engineering teams.
• Mentor, guide, and lead the technical direction of Tech Leads and senior engineers.
• Oversee and approve key design documents and high-level architectural proposals.
• Define and communicate the overall architectural vision and strategy to engineering teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years as a hands-on architect.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex, high-scale, distributed systems (e.g., Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture) in a cloud environment (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Deep expertise in Scala (Java in lieu), Play, Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, S3.
• Experience building or deploying Multi-Agent Frameworks or Multi-Agent Systems, with proven experience working with multiple LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere) and orchestration software like LangGraph.
• Strong experience with data architecture, including SQL and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and data consistency models (Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, CockroachDB), and data pipeline technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability (logging/monitoring/tracing), and DevOps practices.

Nice to have

• Experience transforming a monolithic architecture into modular, service-oriented architecture.
• Experience working directly with customers from both a functionality and triaging standpoint.
• Experience working in building messaging/communication platforms at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Fosters a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion.
• Recognized as one of Inc’s Best Workplaces and Fastest Growing Companies.
• Committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.
• Offers a global presence with offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, and Lisbon, plus remote employees worldwide.