Senior Backend Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Software Engineer (AI): Architecting, developing, and scaling backend services for an AI-driven product quality platform with an accent on high-throughput data pipelines, API design, and system reliability. Focus on microservices architecture, integrating with complex data systems, and ensuring production-grade availability.

Location: Remote (Europe)

Company

hirify.global is an active development company.

What you will do

• Architect, develop, and scale backend services for an AI-driven product quality platform.
• Design and optimize high-throughput data pipelines and APIs.
• Drive system reliability, availability, and observability in a production environment.
• Build and own API services to securely handle large amounts of data.
• Lead technical design reviews, mentor peers, and set engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with product, ML, and infrastructure teams to deliver new capabilities end-to-end.

Requirements

• 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for applying AI solutions and tools.
• Strong knowledge of Java core and OOP principles, with hands-on experience with Spring Boot and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA).
• Experience designing and building REST APIs and microservices architecture in production environments.
• Strong background in cloud-native development: Kubernetes, containerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and hands-on AWS experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL.
• At least an Intermediate level of English (both spoken and written).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) and applied AI use cases.
• Exposure to high-throughput event streaming (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).
• Experience building high-throughput or data-intensive systems.
• Experience in SaaS or product-based companies.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.