Staff Backend Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote, Poland

Base salary: PLN 328,000–492,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps used by more than 50 million registered users and over half of the Fortune 100.

What you will do

• Lead large backend initiatives spanning multiple product and infrastructure teams.
• Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture while modernizing monolithic and legacy systems.
• Define standards for APIs, contracts, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and production readiness.
• Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, Go services, and Kubernetes operations.
• Participate in on-call and incident response, turning production learnings into architectural improvements.
• Mentor engineers, influence technical direction without formal authority, and lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows.

Requirements

• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or a broad product area.
• Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, platforms, APIs, data systems, or modular monoliths.
• Experience modernizing monolithic or legacy backend architecture in production using modular architecture approaches.
• Ability to create alignment through clear written proposals and decision records.
• Experience balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including evaluating and improving team adoption.

Nice to have

• Go services and APIs at scale.
• Kubernetes and cloud-native operations.
• Rust adoption or production ownership.
• Ruby on Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization.
• PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, distributed systems, or security-sensitive engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, asynchronous work environment with an emphasis on written communication and autonomy.
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits for full-time employees.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave.
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
• Growth and development fund and team member resource groups.