Backend Engineer (Go)

Location: New York, NY; on-site. U.S. citizenship required; no active security clearance is required.

Base salary: $159,000–$195,000 per year. Estimated total compensation: $204,000–$263,000, including target bonus and estimated equity value.

Company

hirify.global industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies, developing capabilities for national security and defense.

What you will do

• Design and ship scalable backend services in Go that support operator decision-making and response.
• Build high-performance REST and GraphQL APIs for customer-facing workflows and internal platform capabilities.
• Model complex relationships in graph databases and optimize schemas and queries.
• Implement event-driven systems with NATS to process real-time operational data streams.
• Develop microservices for AWS and on-premises environments, including automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, and resilience-focused operations.
• Partner with product, frontend, cyber operations, and domain experts to turn operational needs into durable platform capabilities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building backend or full-stack applications.
• Strong proficiency with Go and experience shipping production services in Go.
• Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j or AWS Neptune, including schema design and query performance.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues or streaming systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, containers, and microservices.
• Strong secure-coding foundation and experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; U.S. citizenship is required.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering software for defense, security, or other mission-critical environments.
• Experience building systems for analysts, operators, or high-tempo users.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems.
• Experience with large-scale data processing, open-source contributions, or observability tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused work supporting national security and the defense of democracies.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability plan options.
• Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees.
• Paid holidays and flexible paid time off.
• 401(k) plans with pre-tax and Roth options, plus HSA/FSA and dependent-care FSA options.