Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (AI): Designing, delivering, and maintaining web and data pipeline services with an accent on building and operating production backend services, defining cloud infrastructure, and improving observability stack. Focus on collaboration with stakeholders and contributing to data processing pipelines.

Location: Fully remote - choose where you live

Salary: $80k - $120k USD

Company

hirify.global is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in ecommerce, built to explicitly optimize for metrics like revenue, conversion rate, and profit.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and support backend services.
• Define cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Improve and operate our observability stack.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to design, develop, and refine features.
• Contribute to data processing pipelines and ETL processes.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python and server-side web development (API design, concurrency/asynchronous programming).
• Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services (performance, reliability, on-call/operations mindset).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud resource management (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP also fine).
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability: metrics/logs/traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Experience working with databases, including at least one relational and one NoSQL system (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).

Nice to have

• Experience with high-load and/or real-time systems.
• Experience with distributed/service-oriented architectures, including interface definition and binary RPC (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC).
• Familiarity with additional vector databases.
• Experience contributing to or owning ETL/data pipeline systems at scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year.
• Fully remote team - choose where you live.
• Work from home stipend.
• Apple laptops provided for new employees.
• Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year.
• Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate.