Senior Software Engineer (Backend) (AI)

Location: Ireland; onsite in the Galway office two to three days per week

Company

hirify.global develops the hirify.global Cloud AI-powered experience orchestration platform, connecting people, systems, data, and AI for more than 8,000 organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate high-throughput backend services and components in Java.
• Develop APIs, events and streams, storage, consistency, caching, and other backend capabilities for millions of daily interactions.
• Deliver features from discovery through general availability, including technical documentation, design reviews, and sensible work breakdown.
• Build for scale and stability through observability, SLOs, runbooks, back-pressure, limits, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Collaborate with Agentic AI specialists, Product, Security, SRE, Frontend, and other development teams on the hirify.global Cloud platform.
• Review code, contribute to API and event design standards, improve automated testing, mentor colleagues, and apply threat modelling and least-privilege security practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience building backend or platform software with strong ownership.
• Strong Java experience and experience designing and operating services on AWS infrastructure.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including eventual consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, and circuit breakers.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, gRPC, or event-driven messaging such as Kafka, SQS, or RabbitMQ.
• Strong communication skills and availability to work onsite in Galway two to three days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience with analytics and data tooling such as Apache Spark or Pandas.
• Knowledge of batch data processing with Spark, Flink, EMR, or Glue, and data quality tooling.
• Interest in LLM systems, including tool use, orchestration, retrieval, evaluations, and cost-latency trade-offs.
• Experience with observability at scale, security, privacy, or enterprise software governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible work options within the role’s onsite Galway arrangement.
• Continuous learning, mentoring, leadership development, and education support.
• Competitive employer-supported pension scheme and annual bonus program.
• Private health insurance, dental coverage, wellness support, income protection, and life assurance.
• Paid maternity and paternity leave, family-friendly leave policies, paid volunteer time, and well-being resources.

Hiring process

• Application review by Talent Acquisition and the hiring team.
• Zoom interview followed by meetings with the hiring manager and interview team.
• Usually no more than five interviews, followed by communication about the final steps.