Principal Software Engineer (Trust & Safety)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Java/Trust & Safety): Building AI and data-driven trust and safety systems to protect customers from risk vectors like identity integrity and product misuse with an accent on scalable backend architecture and ML integration. Focus on designing core decisioning components, automating risk triage using LLMs, and ensuring high-availability for safety-critical systems.

Location: New York, New York

Company

hirify.global is a global financial technology platform powering prosperity for millions of customers through products like TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Design and implement core Trust & Safety services and decisioning components using Java, Spring Boot, and event-driven architectures.
• Integrate ML models and AI/LLM tooling into production flows for risk scoring, anomaly detection, and automated triage.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, and Compliance teams to create end-to-end solutions for identity integrity and risk prevention.
• Drive architectural best practices for reliability, observability, and operational excellence for high-availability safety systems.
• Mentor and coach engineers on system design and operational rigor to raise the overall technical bar of the team.
• Influence roadmaps to ensure safety and risk controls are integrated into customer journeys from the start.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, distributed backend systems in production.
• Expertise in Java (JVM), Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, and asynchronous architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native services on AWS or GCP, including Kubernetes and messaging platforms like Kafka or Kinesis.
• Proven background in domains related to risk, security, identity, access, or compliance-oriented systems.
• Experience integrating ML models into production and familiarity with modern AI/LLM patterns.
• Solid grounding in secure coding, authentication/authorization patterns, and privacy-by-design principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with a strong pay-for-performance rewards approach.
• Eligibility for cash bonuses and equity rewards.
• Comprehensive benefits for full-time employees.
• Commitment to ongoing fair pay across diverse ethnicities and genders.