Software Development Engineer II

TL;DR

Software Development Engineer II (Servicing team): Designing, building, and operating servicing experiences across web and native apps with an accent on applying AI- and agentic-driven capabilities. Focus on contributing to the technical design and implementation of scalable services and user experiences.

Location: Must be in-office at least three days a week in Austin, TX. No relocation assistance is available.

Company

hirify.global powers global travel for everyone, everywhere through cutting-edge tech and groundbreaking solutions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions for defined services, applying solid coding practices and effective code reviews to maintain high quality and reliability.
• Contribute to low-level system design, API design, and data modeling for services and components, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with architectural guidelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the software development lifecycle, including debugging, performance tuning, and improving operational stability of owned services.
• Collaborate with peers, technical leads, and partner teams to break down requirements, estimate work, and deliver features that support multiple products or domains.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including using AI‑driven tools in development workflows and validating their outputs for correctness and safety.
• Build familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and apply AI/ML concepts to real world products where appropriate, ensuring secure, compliant, and reliable adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional software development experience applying object-oriented or functional programming, data structures, and algorithms to build and maintain production services or applications.
• Experience owning components or services through the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Proficiency in system design at the component level, including API design, data modeling, and integration patterns within a service or small set of related services, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Nice to have

• 2+ years of full‑stack development experience across front‑end and back‑end services.
• Recent hands-on experience building and operating Node.js + React-based applications in production.
• Experience implementing and maintaining GraphQL-based backends.
• Experience designing and implementing service APIs and data models consumed by multiple teams or products.
• Experience running production services with monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation (e.g., pager rotation).

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources.
• Foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
• Named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.