Technical Lead (AI Email App)

Location: Seoul, South Korea; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is building proactive AI applications that help users manage conversations, errands, organization, and workflows with minimal prompting.

What you will do

• Own application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms.
• Design reliable systems for AI-powered workflows, including state management, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems with real-world product experiences.
• Lead a small team of senior engineers through architecture, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
• Balance latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience in high-impact technical decisions.
• Establish observability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence for production systems.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading application or product engineering for complex systems.
• Strong hands-on experience building and shipping production backend systems.
• Experience building AI-powered products or systems integrating modern ML and LLM capabilities.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information.
• Experience working across backend and client platforms, with deep expertise in at least one area.
• High standards for code quality, reliability, ownership, and engineering fundamentals.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, high-talent-density, hands-on team with broad engineering ownership.
• Fast decision-making, close collaboration, and independent execution.
• Emphasis on practical delivery and strong engineering fundamentals over process.
• Interviews are conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite sessions.
• The process typically includes three, and no more than four, interviews followed by a prompt decision.