Principal Software Engineer, AI Email App

Location: Remote, Singapore

Company

hirify.global is building proactive AI-native applications that help people 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 AI-powered workflows covering state management, orchestration, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling.
• Build APIs and abstractions connecting AI systems to real-world product experiences.
• Lead a small senior engineering team through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship.
• Make trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, security, and user experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• Practical focus on building exceptional products rather than process.
• Virtual and/or onsite interviews with a prompt hiring decision.

Hiring process

• Three, and no more than four, interviews may be scheduled if there appears to be a fit.
• Applications are evaluated by technical team members.
• Interviews are conducted via virtual meetings and/or onsite.