Senior Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

Location: Remote within Latin America

Company

hirify.global develops backend services and internal tooling that support its teams, customers, and business platform.

What you will do

• Design, build, and ship production-ready backend services and internal web applications.
• Develop across JVM services and supporting technologies, including Java, Kotlin, Elixir, Ruby, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS/Lambda, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
• Influence architecture, engineering standards, technical decisions, and delivery for owned systems.
• Review pull requests, pair with teammates, and support onboarding.
• Deploy user-facing and operator-facing code responsibly to production.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and maintainability using metrics and incident learnings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building production-ready web applications and backend systems with reliability and security in mind.
• Production experience with JVM services, especially Java or Kotlin, and familiarity with common frameworks and tooling.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, JavaScript, Next.js, or another programming language.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, Git, TypeScript, remote deployment tools, event-based architectures, Kafka, databases, and GraphQL or comparable APIs.
• Experience influencing technical direction and working with complex domain data and neighboring services.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating LLMs or managed AI APIs into backend services or internal tooling.
• Experience building microservices integrated with shared platforms, eCommerce, or marketplace systems.
• Experience with production dashboards, monitoring, incident response, or Python backend development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract position for candidates based in Latin America.
• Cross-squad collaboration with product, design, engineering leadership, and stakeholders.
• Ownership of meaningful features from design through production deployment.
• Opportunity to shape technical direction and improve systems over time.