Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI (AI Engineering)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer (AI Engineering): Helping define, evolve, and scale the platform that powers next-generation patient communication with an accent on agentic AI, MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, and high-throughput distributed systems. Focus on architecting large-scale systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring platform resilience for AI-driven patient engagement.

Location: Hybrid office locations in Santa Barbara, CA, and Philadelphia (Wayne), PA, where team members typically come in three days a week. Remote candidates must be located within the following hiring hubs: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco / Bay Area, or Seattle.

Salary: $140,000 - $200,000 a year. The compensation for this role will be based on level of experience and the geographic tier in which you are located.

Company

hirify.global, a SaaS leader in digital health, transforms patient experience with AI-powered virtual agents (voice and text) for every step of the patient journey.

What you will do

• Serve as a domain expert in backend architecture, distributed systems, and high-throughput IO.
• Drive company-wide architectural patterns, platform strategy, and engineering standards.
• Independently design and deliver large-scale features that impact multiple products or services.
• Identify and eliminate sources of instability, latency, and operational risk.
• Mentor engineers across teams; elevate their understanding of architecture, debugging, reliability, and AI-era best practices.
• Partner with product, design, and data/ML teams to translate complex technical ideas into practical, user-centered solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM.
• 10+ years of equivalent professional experience building and scaling cloud-native applications.
• Deep experience with event-sourced, microservice, and distributed architectures.
• Expert at integrating LLMs and agentic tools like Claude Code to automate and enhance development workflows.
• Advanced TypeScript skills, focusing on building scalable, type-safe, and high-performance backend services.
• Expert in Node.js and NEST, with a focus on modular system design and enterprise-level API structures.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale remote/hybrid teams.
• Contributions to open source.
• Collaboration/contributions with the open source community.

Culture & Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision), flexible spending accounts, company paid life insurance, company paid short-term & long-term disability, company equity, voluntary benefits, 401(k) and more!
• Manager development cohorts, employee development funds.
• Company holidays, Winter & Summer break, and flexible time off.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are available for identifying employees or allies to join.