Senior Software Engineer (Canvas Core)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Canvas Core): Building and maintaining the foundational platform for hirify.global’s visual thinking experience with an accent on real-time collaboration, performance, and developer-friendly APIs. Focus on designing scalable systems for document editing, spatial interactions, and integrating AI-enabled product capabilities.

Location: Must be based in Argentina or the United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a digital workspace for visual collaboration that enables teams to work together effectively from anywhere.

What you will do

• Own and deliver new Canvas platform capabilities from problem definition through implementation and release.
• Design and build maintainable platform systems with accountability for performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Contribute to developer-friendly APIs and service boundaries that internal teams use to build features.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape high-quality user experiences while balancing technical delivery.
• Use AI-assisted tools and agentic workflows to prototype, implement, test, and document engineering work.
• Strengthen the team through technical design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring.

Requirements

• Must be based in Argentina or the United Kingdom.
• 6+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale production software in agile teams.
• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript with experience in React or Node.js.
• Strong experience designing scalable, reliable systems and clean API contracts.
• Experience building distributed, concurrent, or low-latency systems like collaboration tools or shared-state systems.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego approach to working with cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex systems involving hierarchical scene structures, spatial indexing, or layout behavior.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI-enabled product capabilities.
• Performance optimization experience including profiling and latency reduction.
• Familiarity with parallel processing or off-main-thread architectures.
• Experience operating in high-growth, fast-paced scale-up environments.