Senior Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Seattle, WA (hybrid); office attendance required 2–3 days per week at 255 King St. Candidates must be based in the Seattle metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days. Occasional travel for team on-sites is required.

Salary: $159,000–$191,000 target base salary annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a mental health company building an AI-native platform for personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care.

What you will do

• Write, review, and optimize production-ready backend code while making technical decisions and maintaining high quality standards.
• Design and build scalable Ruby on Rails services and provider-facing APIs for profile, onboarding, and offboarding workflows.
• Lead technical design reviews and multi-person, multi-sprint engineering projects from ideation through delivery.
• Use AI coding tools to support design, debugging, code reviews, documentation, and delivery while evaluating outputs for correctness and security.
• Mentor engineers at earlier career stages through code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching.
• Own operational excellence through logging, alerting, monitoring, incident investigation, root cause analysis, and on-call participation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience focused on backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Python, or an equivalent object-oriented backend language.
• Experience leading technical designs and multi-person engineering projects end-to-end.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Active use of AI coding tools and ability to critically review AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards compliance.
• Experience writing well-designed tests, mentoring engineers, and working on an agile team.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating AI/ML features or LLM-powered services in production.
• Background in healthcare or regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision benefits begin on the first day.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2%.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and parental leave after six months of tenure.
• Access to mental health providers, fertility care, fitness and wellness programs, and backup care services.
• Up to $1,000 per year for professional development and $200 per year in donation matching.