Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Location: Remote Canada

Hiring ranges: CAD 104,000–139,000 annually for Canada Tier 1 locations; CAD 95,000–126,000 annually for Canada Tier 2 locations.

Company

hirify.global is a non-profit-backed technology company building open-source products and services focused on a healthier, more private, and secure internet.

What you will do

• Build, maintain, deploy, and operate backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Own services end to end, including production monitoring, releases, dependency updates, and reliability improvements.
• Maintain and improve cloud environments with Cloud Engineering, using monitoring and alerting tools such as OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Participate in on-call and off-hours support, investigate incidents, resolve production issues, and handle support requests.
• Collaborate with frontend, platform, product, UX, design, and support partners on API design, data contracts, and project goals.
• Contribute to code reviews, security and privacy reviews, and the thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements

• Remote work from Canada.
• 4+ years of software development experience with a strong backend focus.
• Professional experience with Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Rust for backend services.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL, SQL query optimization, relational schema design, migrations, and query builders such as Knex.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, Docker-based build and deployment pipelines, observability tooling, and production operations.
• Experience with on-call or off-hours production support, mentoring junior engineers, and improving code quality, testing, and engineering processes.

Nice to have

• Performance or load testing experience.
• Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.
• Open-source contributions or personal engineering projects.
• Django experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Open-source work focused on privacy, security, and reliable services used by millions of people.
• Performance-based bonus plan for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, vision, retirement, disability, life, and employee assistance benefits, varying by country.
• Country-specific holidays, a birthday day off, quarterly wellness days, and paid parental leave.
• Home office stipend, professional development budget, and quarterly well-being stipend.
• Employee referral bonus program.