Principal Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (AI): Defining long-term technical strategy and owning company-critical problems with multi-year impact for customer-facing experiences, operating at the intersection of technology, product, business strategy, and applied AI. Focus on leading the responsible introduction and adoption of AI, architecting foundational systems at scale, and ensuring engineering excellence in a distributed environment.

Location: Remote in Canada, specifically from the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Company

hirify.global is a global community shaping the future of work with a Virtual First model, offering enterprise-level opportunities and a startup mindset for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

What you will do

• Own and drive technical outcomes across multiple teams and organizations, delivering company-critical customer and business impact at scale.
• Define long-term technical strategy and partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders for the most important company objectives.
• Lead the responsible introduction and adoption of AI across product capabilities and engineering workflows.
• Remain deeply hands-on in software development, owning and implementing critical, complex, and foundational system parts.
• Architect and evolve foundational frontend and backend systems and platforms that enable new product capabilities and operate reliably at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.
• Influence and align roadmaps across organizations, resolving structural bottlenecks and changing how hirify.global builds and operates.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience demonstrating deep technical mastery.
• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and evolving large scale software systems with sustained impact across multiple teams or organizations.
• Demonstrated success operating at a Principal level, owning company critical technical problems and influencing long-term technical direction.
• Strong experience building consumer-facing products at scale, with a deep understanding of user experience, performance, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Broad and deep technical expertise across multiple domains, including several of frontend, mobile, search, databases, storage systems, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Practical experience applying modern ML, LLM based APIs, and agentic frameworks in production systems.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and persuasively to senior engineering, product, and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience defining and scaling company-wide platforms or architectural standards that are adopted across multiple organizations.
• Proven track record of leading the introduction of new technologies such as AI or ML into core products or engineering workflows with durable impact.
• Experience operating in highly distributed, virtual first engineering organizations at global scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan.
• Flexible PTO, paid holidays, and Volunteer Time Off.
• Income Protection Plans including life and disability insurance.
• Business Travel Protection including travel medical and accident insurance.
• Perks Allowance to be used on wellness, learning and development, food, and groceries.
• Parental benefits including Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support.
• Mental health and wellness benefits.