Backend Engineer (AI/Fintech)

Location: Remote, United States only; candidates must already be based in the United States.

Company

hirify.global builds financial and insurance products, including an AI Neobank app and a leading online insurance platform in Southeast Asia.

What you will do

• Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk flows.
• Design reliable systems for customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
• Integrate internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
• Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features safely and quickly.
• Simplify existing systems, remove manual work, and automate repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with production systems.
• Understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
• Experience building services used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
• Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset.
• Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong English communication is required; English is the main working language.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, wallets, KYC, fraud, or risk.
• Personal experience building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work for candidates based in the United States.
• Collaboration across global teams representing more than 20 nationalities.
• Focus on building accessible, safe, and practical financial applications.
• Full-time role in the Engineering department.

Hiring process

• Online assessment or practical task.
• Technical interview.
• CEO or final-round interview, with an aim to complete the process and make an offer within one week from the start of interviews for strong candidates.