Software Engineer, Platform

Location: Columbia, SC, USA; the company operates in a 100% distributed setting with no office.

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 per year plus bonus and stock, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that help people turn digital and printed reading material into audio.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, consumption tracking, and the public text-to-speech API.
• Improve inherited services by making them faster, cheaper, more reliable, and easier to validate.
• Establish automated checks and safeguards that keep system changes correct after deployment.
• Automate repetitive operational work and create repeatable processes for the wider team.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on the platform.
• Partner with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture aligned with product growth.

Requirements

• Proven backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Direct experience with Google Cloud Platform and working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud provider.
• Experience using AI agents in daily work, including defining what they can run unattended and what requires review.
• Strong judgment in validating results against logs, database state, and actual requests.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs, remove unnecessary scope, and accept corrective feedback.
• Must be based in the United States, with the role listed in Columbia, South Carolina.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
• Experience deploying highly available applications on Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% distributed and asynchronous work environment with no office.
• High autonomy and responsibility for shaping products and technical scope.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and stock.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
• Work on accessibility-focused products used by people with learning differences.

Hiring process

• Several technical interviews followed by a take-home assessment on a real codebase.
• The assessment has two stages: submission, engineer feedback, and time to revise the work.
• The process is intended to finish within one week and includes a walkthrough of the candidate's reasoning.