Software Engineer, Platform (TypeScript/Node)

Location: Remote role based in the United States; listed location is Arlington, VA, USA

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

Company

hirify.global develops text-to-speech products across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and web, helping more than 50 million people turn written content 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 to make them faster, more cost-efficient, reliable, and resilient.
• Establish correctness before releases and create automated checks that preserve it after deployment.
• Automate repetitive operational work and turn successful solutions into repeatable team practices.
• Design B2B and enterprise integrations for customers building on the platform.
• Collaborate with product, mobile, and web teams to evolve backend architecture.

Requirements

• Proven backend experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Direct experience with GCP and working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or another cloud platform.
• Experience using AI agents in daily development workflows, including reviewing unattended work and defining operational boundaries.
• Strong technical judgment, including validating results against logs, database state, and actual requests.
• Ability to explain technical trade-offs, simplify systems, and accept and apply feedback.
• Ability to work remotely from the United States.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• 100% distributed work environment with no office.
• Autonomy and an asynchronous work culture.
• Opportunity to influence products at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.
• Work on accessibility-focused products used by people with learning differences.
• Competitive compensation with bonus and stock.

Hiring process

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