Staff Engineer (Founding Team)

TL;DR

Staff Engineer (Founding Team) (Fullstack/AI): Building and launching new software businesses from the ground up with an accent on full-stack development, rapid prototyping, and real-world validation. Focus on architecting core systems, integrating AI to accelerate development, and navigating high-ambiguity environments to turn early concepts into viable products.

Location: Remote with a preference for candidates local to Santa Monica, CA; occasional travel to LA required.

Company

hirify.global partners with leading industrial manufacturing organizations to build and scale new software ventures from scratch.

What you will do

• Take concepts from zero to a working product and real-world validation.
• Own full-stack development including frontend, backend, APIs, and data layers.
• Shape product direction and strategy alongside venture leads and PMs.
• Design and build rapid validation loops to test assumptions and de-risk ideas.
• Architect and implement core systems, models, and integrations from scratch.
• Leverage AI as a force multiplier across development and product capabilities.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 0→1 environments.
• Proven ability to build and ship full-stack applications end-to-end.
• Strong judgment regarding speed vs. scalability tradeoffs in early-stage systems.
• Demonstrated use of AI to accelerate development or product capabilities.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments with evolving problems and solutions.
• Ability to work with incomplete or messy inputs to arrive at practical solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience operating in environments without a clear playbook.
• Ability to identify leverage through reusable patterns and shortcuts.
• Focus on building solutions that work in real-world conditions.
• Strong sense of ownership for outcomes rather than just implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on role with meaningful ownership over product direction and technical foundations.
• Opportunity to work across multiple ventures and diverse problem spaces.
• Collaborative environment working directly with stakeholders and venture leads.
• High-impact work shaping the future of industrial software businesses.