Software Engineer, Platform (TypeScript/Node)

Location: United States-based role, Bloomington, Indiana; 100% distributed work setting

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

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products that convert documents, books, websites, and other content into audio across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own APIs for payments, subscriptions, authentication, consumption tracking, and the public TTS API.
• Improve existing services to make them faster, more cost-efficient, reliable, and resilient.
• Establish correctness before releases and create automated checks that preserve it afterward.
• Automate repetitive operational work and turn proven solutions into repeatable team practices.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on the platform.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to keep backend architecture aligned with product development.

Requirements

• Proven backend development 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 a daily development workflow, including defining what runs unattended and what requires review.
• Strong judgment when validating results against logs, database state, and actual requests.
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions about what not to build and explain those decisions clearly.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• 100% distributed work in an asynchronous environment.
• Autonomy and flexibility to support focused, creative work.
• Opportunity to influence the company and its products through significant ownership.
• Work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and stock depending on experience.
• Work on accessibility-focused products supporting 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 and real engineer feedback, followed by time to revise the work.
• The process is intended to be completed within one week and includes a walkthrough of the candidate’s reasoning.