Backend Engineer

Location: Toronto, Canada

Base pay: $119.3K–$155K per year, with potential additional bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides data-activated content generation and AI decisioning solutions that help global brands personalize marketing and improve revenue and workflow efficiency.

What you will do

• Design and implement services that detect behavioral patterns, correlate customer signals across time windows, and determine trigger eligibility.
• Build stateful systems for evaluating multi-event intent, incomplete actions, and state-change-driven triggers.
• Deliver complex backend features from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Develop reusable declarative or rule-based capabilities for defining and extending behavioral triggers.
• Integrate behavioral signals with campaign orchestration and message delivery systems in collaboration with Product and Engineering.
• Maintain operational excellence through metrics, traces, logs, alerts, reliability practices, and shared on-call support.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or platform systems in production.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, event-driven, or high-scale backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with stateful services, real-time decisioning, asynchronous processing, reliability, and production operations.
• Proficiency with Kafka and gRPC, plus experience with high-performance analytics databases such as ClickHouse.
• Understanding of partitioning, retries, duplicate events, ordering, idempotency, backfills, and data consistency tradeoffs.
• Experience building scalable backend services in GCP or AWS, with monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust or Elixir.
• Experience with a Customer Behavioral Tracking SDK.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, product-minded work focused on balancing technical quality with customer value.
• Opportunity to work on behavioral intelligence, automated marketing triggers, and distributed platform systems.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits are included.
• Commitment to an inclusive and diverse workplace.