Director, Platform & Performance Engineering (AI)

TL;DR

Director, Platform & Performance Engineering (AI): Responsible for accelerating the scalability, performance, and operational resilience of hirify.global's backend SaaS platform services with an accent on backend services, distributed architectures, and database performance engineering. Focus on improving and evolving the technical foundation and performance of the core platform and data services, ensuring platform stability under real-world production load.

Location: United States

Company

hirify.global is the most trusted global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, helping organizations manage the end-to-end process of proposing, negotiating, signing, and leveraging contracts.

What you will do

• Own and drive the performance, scalability, and reliability roadmap for the backend platform.
• Establish practical performance engineering practices, including load testing, benchmarking, and regression detection.
• Drive excellence in relational database architecture across MySQL and PostgreSQL environments in AWS (RDS/Aurora).
• Strengthen metrics instrumentation, structured logging and tracing across backend services.
• Engage directly in cross-team architectural design reviews, complex system decisions, and strategic refactoring initiatives.
• Recruit and develop a team of strong backend, database, and platform engineers.

Requirements

• 12+ years of backend engineering experience, including senior technical leadership roles.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Java (JEE, Spring, or comparable enterprise frameworks).
• Strong proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, or services development.
• Strong expertise in performance optimization of relational database access patterns, including MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience using modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve productivity and code quality.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms at significant scale.
• Familiarity with performance tuning and profiling tools.
• Experience partnering closely with infrastructure and SRE teams in AWS environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Support multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
• Offer a working environment that supports healthy work/life balance, including floating holidays and a quarterly, no-questions-asked wellness day.
• Comprehensive benefits package for US employees including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried position.
• Paid parental leave.