Senior Product Engineer, Product Platform (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Product Engineer, Product Platform (AI): Building and optimizing shared product systems and primitives for an agentic software creation platform with an accent on enabling product teams to ship faster and empowering users to build better software. Focus on designing and scaling foundational systems from 0 to 1 to support millions of users and defining engineering excellence across reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Location: Hybrid in Foster City, CA, with in-office attendance required Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Salary: $225,000–$320,000

Company

hirify.global is an agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language, democratizing software development for millions of users worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead major cross-team platform initiatives, taking foundational systems from 0 to 1 and scaling them to support millions of users.
• Build shared, extensible Agent primitives that hirify.global Agent can reuse safely and consistently.
• Identify the highest-leverage technical bottlenecks (performance, reliability, correctness, abuse, observability), then design and ship solutions for scale.
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code quality, reliability standards, and mentorship.
• Partner across teams to improve platform adoption, ergonomics, and velocity, turning platform work into measurable outcomes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Understanding of the full agentic software development stack, helping coding agents build, test and review correct code.
• Strong track record leading complex projects with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience building and operating platform systems that other teams depend on.
• Experience operating and scaling systems in production (reliability, performance, incidents, on-call readiness).
• Strong product judgment: ability to balance UX, speed, correctness, and long-term maintainability.
• Comfort working in modern web stacks such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Postgres.

Nice to have

• Experience working in environments with a high engineering bar or a fast-growing startup.
• Experience with platform and distributed systems patterns (queues, workflows, caching, rate limiting, async processing).
• Familiarity with systems like Redis, Temporal, Auth and enterprise identity (SSO, SCIM), Cloud platforms (GCP), and Observability tools (Datadog, Sentry).
• Excitement about the future of programming, including agent workflows and developer tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Equity, with a 401(k) Program (4% match).
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Paid Parental, Medical, and Caregiver Leave.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays and a Monthly Wellness Stipend.
• Autonomous work environment with in-office set-up reimbursement and quarterly team gatherings.