Sr. Staff Software Engineer (E-Commerce)

TL;DR

Sr. Staff Software Engineer (E-Commerce): Architecting and scaling the Shopping Platform Infrastructure to support growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements with an accent on ensuring data accuracy and accessibility at a massive scale. Focus on driving technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies.

Location: Must be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Zurich and be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week

Company

hirify.global is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration and bring their passions to life.

What you will do

• Lead the technical vision and execution for scaling the Shopping Platform Infrastructure, supporting exponential growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements.
• Architect, design, and build large-scale, highly distributed systems for catalog ingestion, processing, enrichment, and retrieval, ensuring data is accurate, fresh and easy to access at massive scale.
• Collaborate closely with product, data, and business teams to align Shopping Platform Infrastructure with hirify.global’s overall Shopping strategy and deliver best-in-class Shopping experiences.
• Drive technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as Flink, Spark, TiDB, and more.
• Champion operational excellence by implementing best practices for monitoring, reliability, and cost efficiency across all Shopping Platform systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
• Proven success in architecting and scaling distributed systems to support 10X+ growth in data volume and complexity, ideally in e-commerce, or high-growth technology environments.
• Deep technical expertise in Shopping infrastructure and standards, catalog management, data pipelines, and real-time data processing.
• Experience building and owning large-scale, high-performance infrastructure powering Shopping, Recommendation, Search, or other consumer-facing applications.
• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate business goals into technical vision and execution.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java or C++.

Culture & Benefits

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.