Principal Software Engineer (AI Trust & Safety)

Location: New York, New York, United States

Salary: $261,000–$353,000 annual base pay, plus cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform whose products include TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Define Trust & Safety architecture across access, identity, product misuse, risk, and compliance use cases.
• Design and implement Java-based core services and decisioning components using Spring, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native platforms.
• Integrate machine learning models into production workflows for risk scoring, classification, anomaly detection, and prioritization.
• Apply AI and LLM-based tools to automate triage and classification of risk-related events and content.
• Improve reliability, performance, observability, SLOs, alerting, runbooks, and on-call readiness for safety-critical systems.
• Lead architecture discussions, influence cross-team roadmaps, mentor engineers, and guide prototypes into production-ready solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed backend systems in production.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, JVM, Spring/Spring Boot, microservices, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience in risk, security, safety, identity, access, financial or transactional flows, content integrity, or compliance systems.
• Experience with cloud-native services on AWS, GCP, or equivalent, including containers, Kubernetes, managed data stores, and Kafka or Kinesis.
• Experience integrating and operating ML models in production, plus familiarity with modern AI and LLM tooling.
• Strong knowledge of API design, performance, concurrency, resiliency, observability, secure coding, authentication, authorization, privacy, and data protection; BS/MS in a relevant technical field or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience working in globally distributed, matrixed organizations and ambiguous problem spaces.
• Experience influencing architecture across multiple teams and mentoring engineers in system design and operational excellence.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Data Science, Security, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and platform teams.
• Globally distributed working environment with an emphasis on secure-by-design, privacy-by-design, and sustainable solutions.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based cash bonuses, equity rewards, and benefits.
• Regular pay comparisons across ethnicity and gender categories to support fair compensation.