Senior Software Engineer (Agentic AI)

Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States

Base salary: $145,000–$165,000 per year, commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native Public Benefit Corporation building a platform that helps large organizations govern AI responsibly.

What you will do

• Design and build MCP tool integrations connecting the platform with model providers and external systems.
• Architect data pipelines that ingest, structure, and process AI agent outputs at scale.
• Build and maintain core platform features with Django and Python.
• Make architecture and maintainability tradeoffs in a fast-moving technical environment.
• Partner with the CTO on the agentic AI technical roadmap and establish development standards.
• Debug, harden, and improve production systems affected by agent-specific failure modes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience with deep Python expertise.
• Strong experience with Django or a comparable web framework.
• Experience building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and reliable processing at scale.
• Familiarity with LLM tool-calling patterns, MCP, or similar agent-orchestration concepts.
• Strong systems thinking, including failure modes, retries, idempotency, and data consistency.
• Excellent written communication and the ability to document technical design decisions clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience with async Python, asyncio, FastAPI, or similar technologies for streaming or long-running agent workloads.
• Experience at an early- or growth-stage startup.
• Exposure to vector databases, embeddings, or RAG architectures.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure such as RDS or Redis.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful equity in an early-stage, venture-backed company.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• Senior engineers have autonomy over architecture, scope, and technical standards.