Software Architect (AI)

Location: United States

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud compliance platform for tax research, tax rules, rates, taxability insights, and AI-assisted research experiences.

What you will do

• Own and evolve end-to-end architecture across application, data, integration, and platform layers.
• Define scalable, secure cloud architecture for search, retrieval, content delivery, AI-assisted experiences, and export or sharing workflows.
• Translate product strategy into architecture roadmaps, technical investments, and phased execution plans.
• Drive decisions on service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous and event-driven patterns, and reusable platform interfaces.
• Lead AI-native architecture for grounded retrieval, citation-backed answers, MCP and AI agent access, caching, proxying, and observability.
• Establish guardrails for security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, tenancy, data governance, and production readiness while mentoring engineers and technical leads.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing and evolving production SaaS systems and business-critical platforms as a Staff+ Engineer, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent technical leader.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-based service-oriented and distributed architectures, API design, asynchronous systems, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience with search, retrieval, content-centric systems, metadata-driven architectures, complex-domain data modeling, performance engineering, scalability, reliability, and graceful degradation.
• Applied AI experience with retrieval-augmented systems, grounding and citations, prompt orchestration, model integration patterns, MCPs, and AI agents, plus strong communication and architectural judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• AI is embedded in workflows, decision-making, and products, with expectations to apply it to business and engineering challenges.
• Paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Eligible employees may receive bonuses.
• Benefits generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance, varying by location.
• Inclusive culture supported by employee resource groups with senior leadership and executive sponsorship.