Senior Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in Munich, Germany

Salary: $110,000–$200,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage, Y Combinator-backed AI supply chain startup focused on the Consumer Packaged Goods sector.

What you will do

• Design and implement backend systems that support AI-powered supply chain planning and execution decisions.
• Architect data models and pipelines for complex, unstructured real-world data.
• Build real-time request processing and supply chain planning services with high reliability.
• Develop scalable SQL queries and data access patterns across large datasets.
• Ship production-grade services using modern backend frameworks and testing best practices.
• Improve deployment and runbook processes to maintain 24/7 system uptime.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer shipping production products.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python, FastAPI, and pytest.
• Strong SQL skills, including high-performance queries over millions of data points.
• Experience designing scalable data architectures and owning backend systems end-to-end.
• Experience managing messy, unstructured data at scale and building real-time processing systems.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted code generation tools, unstructured data ingestion, DevOps practices, and AWS.

Nice to have

• Exposure to frontend frameworks and frontend testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work as part of a small, fast-moving engineering team.
• Collaborate closely with the core product and engineering team.
• Visa sponsorship is available.