Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered developer platform and open-source collaboration service used by millions of developers and organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership for systems that help AI agents acquire, interpret, retain, and apply software-development context.
• Design, prototype, implement, test, ship, and operate scalable solutions across hirify.global services and Copilot experiences.
• Develop platform capabilities and APIs for context retrieval, sessions, memory, agent customization, evaluation, and feedback-driven improvement.
• Turn ambiguous product opportunities into technical strategies, architecture proposals, experiments, and executable roadmaps.
• Partner with product, design, research, data science, and engineering teams to deliver coherent end-to-end experiences.
• Mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and participate in operational ownership, on-call rotations, and incident response where applicable.

Requirements

• At least 9 years of experience in software engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience; alternative education and experience combinations are accepted.
• Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software in one or more programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Experience with information retrieval, context retrieval, knowledge graphs, semantic systems, personalization, or persistent knowledge and memory systems.
• Experience designing or integrating AI-agent or generative-AI features in production, including model orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, evaluation, or feedback loops.
• Ability to define technical direction, influence architecture across multiple teams, and turn ambiguous problems into reliable and maintainable systems.
• Experience with experimentation, telemetry, evaluation, privacy, permissions, security, provenance, or enterprise governance requirements.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript.
• Strong product and customer judgment with data-informed product development experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.
• Competitive pay and excellent benefits.
• Learning and growth opportunities.
• Values centered on customer focus, continuous learning, ownership, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.