Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Focus): Improving student and teacher experiences by owning and shipping polished, end-to-end product features with an accent on UX, interaction design, and visual quality. Focus on improving product quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability across the frontend codebase.

Location: Must work from one of the two locations (San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY) and come into the office in-person 4 days a week.

Salary: $170,000 - $230,000

Company

hirify.global’s mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone.

What you will do

• Own and ship polished, end-to-end product features that improve student and teacher experiences.
• Partner closely with product managers and designers on UX, interaction design, and visual quality.
• Help shape frontend and full-stack technical direction, translating product goals into pragmatic implementation plans.
• Improve product quality, performance, accessibility, and maintainability across the frontend codebase.
• Collaborate with engineers to design APIs and deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong React and Typescript experience, with ownership of production-grade user-facing features used by hundreds of thousands to millions of users.
• Experience building modern web applications using TypeScript and React.
• Strong CSS skills, with experience using systems such as Tailwind, SCSS.
• Solid full-stack fundamentals, including working with APIs and relational databases (e.g., MySQL).

Nice to have

• Experience integrating and shipping features backed by LLMs or AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic)

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance, including a medical insurance plan with 100% coverage of employee premiums.
• Flexible PTO policy and company holidays.
• Doordash credit for lunch daily.

Hiring process

• Kira will make a conditional job offer in line with local, state and federal laws, and a subsequent criminal, education, and employment history background check will then be issued.