Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for AI-driven shopping agents with an accent on API design, concurrency, and data processing. Focus on developing next-generation e-commerce search, integrating with core personalization engines, and ensuring extreme scale and reliability.

Location: Fully remote, worldwide

Salary: $80,000–$120,000 USD base salary, plus stock options.

Company

hirify.global is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in ecommerce, utilizing transformers and generative LLMs to optimize revenue, conversion, 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 the 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

• Fully remote team with the ability to choose where you live.
• Unlimited vacation time, with encouragement to take at least 3 weeks per year.
• Work from home stipend and Apple laptops provided.
• Training and development budget refreshed each year.
• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees.
• Regular team offsite events to connect and collaborate.