Staff Backend Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer (AI): Design and scale the core systems that power Nectar's platform, focusing on infrastructure that ingests large volumes of social data and runs AI agents in real time. Focus on improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across backend and data pipelines as the platform scales.

Location: Hybrid, Palo Alto

Salary: $225K – $300K

Company

hirify.global is building the AI-native social operating system that enables a new era of commerce, focusing on authentic social interactions and personalized experiences.

What you will do

• Design and build backend systems to ingest and process social data from platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn.
• Develop resilient integrations with third-party APIs and optimize infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across backend and data pipelines.
• Establish operational best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and on-call culture.
• Write architecture documents and guide infrastructure and tooling decisions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to building a strong engineering culture.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience designing, building, and operating production systems.
• Deep understanding of system design, distributed systems, and scalable backend architecture.
• Experience integrating external APIs and building reliable data pipelines.
• Interest in mentoring engineers and shaping engineering culture.
• Curiosity about how AI is changing software development and interest in AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-scale data pipelines or real-time data processing systems.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools such as AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, or similar technologies.
• Experience integrating AI or machine learning systems into production environments.
• Previous experience working at an early-stage or rapidly scaling startup.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and early equity.
• Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match.
• Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales.
• Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto.
• Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it.
• A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure.