Backend Engineer, AI

Location: Remote, China; interviews may be conducted virtually or onsite.

Company

hirify.global is building proactive AI-native applications for conversations, errands, organization, and workflows, with a focus on reliable long-running task execution and persistent context.

What you will do

• Build and operate backend systems that serve AI-powered product features in production.
• Design inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around AI models.
• Develop fast, stable, observable APIs for mobile and desktop clients.
• Own monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response for production systems.
• Optimize latency and throughput across inference, caching, batching, and streaming.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments.
• Experience running high-throughput, low-latency services.
• Familiarity with AI inference patterns, including LLMs, embeddings, and multimodal models.
• Ability to debug distributed systems under load.
• Experience with Python, Node.js, PyTorch, SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small, high-talent-density, hands-on team.
• Make decisions collectively while moving at a rapid pace.
• Balance high-quality delivery with learning from production behavior.
• Work independently, exercise judgment, and bring structure to ambiguous challenges.
• Expect a prompt decision after a process of three, and no more than four, interviews.

Hiring process

• Applications are evaluated by technical team members.
• Interviews are conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite.
• A final decision is made promptly when there is a strong fit.