Senior Engineer I-Ii (Ai)

TL;DR

Senior Engineer I-II (AI): Building and evolving core platform foundations that power hirify.global’s workflow engine and frontend platform, enabling product engineers to ship confidently across cloud and self-hosted deployments with an accent on reliability, scalability, and performance. Focus on improving data architecture and database performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Location: Remote, Europe. The company has a Berlin office.

Company

hirify.global is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI, giving technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code.

What you will do

• Contribute to backend subsystems like durable workflow execution & state, orchestration patterns, queue/task distribution, and system modularization.
• Apply best practices for correctness and resilience in systems that operate across cloud and self-hosted environments.
• Improve data architecture and database performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Work on the core canvas architecture and frontend platform primitives that enable complex workflow building experiences.
• Build and improve real-time collaboration capabilities with a focus on correctness and user experience.
• Contribute to technical decisions through clear proposals and discussions.

Requirements

• Systems thinking mindset: You think about correctness, trade-offs, and reliability.
• System design experience: You’ve contributed to system design decisions or worked on significant components.
• TypeScript depth: You have strong TypeScript experience and you’re comfortable working in a large, evolving codebase.
• Collaboration: You communicate well, work cross-functionally, and collaborate effectively with other engineers.
• Pragmatic engineering: You’re comfortable improving and refactoring existing systems to make them more scalable and maintainable.
• Node.js backend systems: You’ve built backend systems in TypeScript/Node.js beyond CRUD.
• You need to have existing right to work to any other country, except Germany.

Nice to have

• Workflow/orchestration or devtools experience: You’ve worked on workflow engines, orchestration platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent SaaS.
• Open-source experience: You’ve contributed to or maintained OSS, and understand public API contracts and backward compatibility.
• Large-scale SaaS exposure: You’ve worked on systems with meaningful scale or complexity.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity.
• Remote-first team across Europe, with regular off-sites.
• Career growth: You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• Unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
• Transparency.