Staff Fullstack Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Fullstack Software Engineer (AI): Driving technical strategy and architecture for a software platform focused on reinventing social services with an accent on scalability, reliability, and maintainability. Focus on leveraging AI tooling to accelerate team output and shaping engineering standards across multiple teams.

Location: hirify.global HQ - San Francisco, CA; Satellite Office - Seattle, WA

Salary: $160K – $300K

Company

hirify.global builds software for state and county government agencies, focusing on reinventing social services.

What you will do

• Own cross-team technical strategy for major platform areas, setting direction on architecture, reliability, and scalability.
• Lead complex, multi-quarter infrastructure and architectural initiatives from design through delivery, coordinating dependencies across teams.
• Define and champion engineering standards and patterns that make the codebase more flexible, scalable, and maintainable.
• Partner with Product, Policy, and Technical Account Management to shape roadmap decisions with strong technical and product perspective.
• Identify and resolve systemic risks, including security, HIPAA compliance, performance bottlenecks, and incident response.
• Proactively leverage AI and modern tooling to drive higher output quality and team efficiency.

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record leading large-scale infrastructure and architectural projects across multiple teams or systems.
• Ability to set technical direction, including navigating ambiguity and making principled trade-offs.
• Deep experience building and maintaining configurable, enterprise-grade systems; government-facing software experience is a strong plus.
• Strong command of Ruby on Rails and React; GraphQL experience a plus.
• Product orientation, thinking about user impact and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills to distill complex technical decisions for various stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring and elevating senior engineers, and a genuine investment in team culture.
• Fluency applying AI tools in your own workflow and excitement about building AI-powered product features.

Culture & Benefits

• Above-market compensation package (salary + equity).
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with 99% of premiums covered for you and your dependents.
• Flexible vacation time to promote a healthy work-life blend.
• 13 paid holidays, including federally observed holidays, Election Day, and the day after Thanksgiving.
• 16 weeks of paid parental bonding leave for the arrival of a newborn or newly placed infant.
• $2,500 annual reimbursement for ongoing learning and development.
• $50 a month effective work reimbursement to cover internet, electricity, office setup costs, or lunch/snacks with coworkers.