Senior Software Engineer (Sitecore Search)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (hirify.global Search): Building and operating high-impact backend systems that power intelligent, data-driven digital experiences at scale with an accent on correctness, security, and maintainability. Focus on AI-assisted engineering, architecture decisions and platform direction.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global is the leading provider of agentic digital experience software, hirify.global brings together content, commerce, and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful, adaptive experiences every day.

What you will do

• Solve problems autonomously by proactively reaching out to other teams, stakeholders, and subject-matter experts.
• Collaborate with product owners and cross-functional teams to define requirements and influence platform direction.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, evaluate design patterns, and propose solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain Go services in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.
• Evolve and optimize our cloud-based platform, balancing relevance, latency, resilience, and cost.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging, and help shape team-level best practices for AI-assisted workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent senior-level impact).
• Strong backend skills in Go or other languages (e.g., Java, Python, TypeScript) in a polyglot environment.
• Experience building and running distributed systems in production (microservices, event-driven architectures, failure modes).
• Solid cloud-native experience (Azure, or another major cloud provider) with Kubernetes, identity/secrets management, networking, and CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
• Comfortable using LLM tools and agents in daily work without sacrificing quality.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, Azure AI Search, or similar), including index design and relevance tuning.
• Experience with vector search, embeddings, or semantic retrieval techniques.
• Experience with distributed NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB or similar), including partitioning and throughput tuning.

Culture & Benefits

• Great team and company culture!
• hirify.global has been recognised for award-winning Culture by Comparably.
• hirify.global is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.