Senior Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (AI): You will design and develop services within hirify.global’s microservices ecosystem focusing on building highly scalable e-commerce systems involving inventory, fulfillment, and gifting. Focus on improving system reliability by defining service-level metrics, setting alerting thresholds, and automating responses.

Location: Bangalore (Gopalan Axis SEZ)

Company

hirify.global is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive.

What you will do

• Design and develop services within hirify.global’s microservices ecosystem.
• Work on highly scalable e-commerce systems involving inventory, fulfillment, and gifting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver business features and ensure compliance requirements are met.
• Build service artifacts, plan deployments, and coordinate timelines with project and partner teams.
• Improve system reliability by defining service-level metrics, setting alerting thresholds, and automating responses.
• Mentor junior engineers and support their technical growth.

Requirements

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of industry experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong coding skills in Java, with openness to learning TypeScript.
• Solid computer science fundamentals (Design Patterns, Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, DBMS).
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Good communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Exposure to NoSQL databases is a plus.
• Exposure to AI tools like Cursor, Claude.
• Interest or experience in cloud platforms (AWS today, GCP tomorrow) is highly valued.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-focused – You understand that customer impact drives everything we build.
• Obsessed with Quality – Your production code is reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Team players – You collaborate, listen, and give constructive feedback.
• Fast learners – You enjoy learning new technologies and applying them quickly.
• Pragmatic – You balance speed and quality, knowing when trade-offs make sense.