Real-Time Audio Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Stockholm, Sweden — on-site at the Stockholm HQ

Company

hirify.global is a fast-scaling health-tech company building clinician-focused healthcare workflows, medical notes, and AI-powered documentation.

What you will do

• Build and improve real-time audio streaming systems across the platform.
• Work across device capture, buffering, transport, streaming, transcription, monitoring, and quality assurance.
• Design and operate reliable infrastructure for large volumes of real-time audio data.
• Investigate production issues involving latency, connectivity, audio quality, reliability, scalability, and device compatibility.
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, infrastructure, AI, and product engineers on end-to-end experiences.
• Improve observability, testing, tooling, technical direction, and engineering practices for media systems.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating production systems involving audio, video, streaming, or other real-time data.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable backend systems.
• Familiarity with WebRTC, RTP, RTCP, WebSockets, streaming infrastructure, or similar real-time media technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting performance, latency, reliability, and scalability issues in production.
• Ability to work across multiple layers of the stack and collaborate with engineers from different disciplines.
• Strong communication skills and a pragmatic approach to complex technical problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale audio processing pipelines, speech-to-text, transcription, or conversational AI systems.
• Experience building products where audio or video is central to the user experience.
• Experience with React and TypeScript, or C# and Windows-based development.
• Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or other reliability-critical domains.

Culture & Benefits

• Primarily office-based collaboration at the Stockholm HQ, with team meetings, social events, and offsites in Sweden.
• Competitive salary, company stock options, pension program, and 30 days of paid vacation per year.
• 5,000 SEK wellness allowance plus an additional 6,000 SEK yearly for health-related initiatives.
• Parental leave top-up, private medical insurance, and mental health support.
• Opportunity to work with AI, healthcare, and engineering specialists on clinician-focused products.

Hiring process

• Screening interview with Talent Acquisition.
• Technical interviews with the Engineering team, followed by an in-office system design interview.
• Follow-up interview with the CTO and Co-Founder.