Senior Lead Systems Engineer, AI & Automation

Location: New York City, United States

Salary: $116,000–$182,000/year base compensation; expected OTE of $129,000–$202,000/year including bonus or commission.

Company

hirify.global is a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver personalized experiences through cross-channel messaging, journey orchestration, and AI-powered decisioning.

What you will do

• Design and build intelligent automation, agentic workflows, and integrations across enterprise platforms.
• Develop APIs, middleware, webhooks, and event-driven workflows connecting Slack, Okta, Workday, Atlassian, GitHub, Google Workspace, and other SaaS applications.
• Build conversational IT and self-service experiences that reduce reliance on ticket-based workflows.
• Architect scalable, resilient, extensible enterprise platform solutions with strong operational reliability.
• Evaluate and implement AI technologies, large language models, MCP integrations, and agent frameworks.
• Lead technical initiatives, contribute to platform strategy, document architecture, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale integrations and automation across modern SaaS environments.
• Strong software engineering experience building APIs, integrations, automation, or platform services.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or similar programming languages.
• Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, SCIM, GraphQL, and modern authentication standards.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Okta, Workday, Slack, Atlassian, GitHub, or Google Workspace.
• Ability to design scalable architectures and collaborate across engineering, security, infrastructure, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing AI agents, MCP integrations, LLM-powered workflows, or enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, infrastructure as code, cloud automation, event-driven architectures, message queues, or serverless technologies.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or enterprise integration frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
• Equity grants, retirement and employee stock purchase plans.
• Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Fertility benefits, equal paid parental leave, and family services.
• Professional development, formal career pathing, learning platforms, and an annual learning stipend.
• Employee Resource Groups, volunteer opportunities, and donation matching.

Hiring process

• AI-assisted tools may be used to analyze application materials and support scheduling, interview recording, and note summarization.
• Recruiting teams remain responsible for hiring decisions and participate throughout the process.