Software Development Engineer II

TL;DR

Software Development Engineer II: Building and evolving scalable, AI‑ready experiences and services to improve traveler engagement, planning success, and conversion at the earliest stages of the shopping journey with an accent on system design, API design, and data modeling. Focus on integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes.

Location: United States - California - San Jose

Salary: $129,000.00 to $180,500.00

Company

hirify.global brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and operate moderately complex software services and components, including system design, API design, and data modeling.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable code by applying standard engineering practices and contributing to the improvement of team development workflows.
• Analyze functional and non-functional requirements to implement reliable, observable, and secure services, participating in on-call or production support as appropriate.
• Collaborate with product, program, and peer engineering teams to break down requirements, estimate work, and ship incremental value as part of an agile delivery process across multiple related services.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes.
• Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and refactoring efforts that increase codebase quality and enable reuse across multiple services and domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software development experience that demonstrates ownership of one or more services or components.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language and ecosystem, with hands-on experience in system design, API design, and data modeling for service-oriented or microservice-based architectures.
• Experience building, testing, and operating backend or full-stack services in a production environment using standard engineering practices such as version control, automated testing, and continuous integration/deployment.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and the ability to work with AI/ML‑enabled components safely within existing services.

Nice to have

• Proficiency with core web technologies (such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and experience integrating with APIs and basic data models that support web functionality.
• Experience designing and implementing complex web interfaces or modules that operate reliably at scale across multiple products or domains.
• Demonstrated ability to define low-level designs, API interactions, and data structures for web features, and to influence technical approaches within a team.
• Experience instrumenting web applications with analytics, monitoring, and logging to inform data-driven decisions and operational excellence.
• Experience integrating or consuming AI/ML-powered capabilities in web applications, and safely operating AI-augmented tools or workflows to improve developer productivity or customer outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources.
• Open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
• Wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent ( IATAN ) membership.