Senior Backend Engineer (Multiple Positions)

Location: Remote within the United States

Pay: $163,000–$224,070 for Zone 3, $172,600–$237,270 for Zone 2, or $191,800–$263,670 for Zone 1, plus RSUs and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides software delivery tools for feature management, experimentation, observability, release control, and AI-powered engineering workflows.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of large or ambiguous backend projects from problem definition through production.
• Design, implement, test, and operate scalable, secure, observable, and maintainable services and APIs.
• Improve system observability and operability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, service-level objectives, and incident follow-through.
• Identify architectural risks, performance bottlenecks, operational gaps, and technical friction, then drive durable improvements.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Support, Customer Success, and engineering teams to deliver measurable customer outcomes.
• Influence technical direction, mentor engineers, improve engineering practices, and participate in production support.

Requirements

• Must be located in the United States and work remotely from the US.
• 7+ years of experience building and operating production software with measurable customer or business impact.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, API design, and distributed systems.
• Deep experience with Go, Python, Rust, or an equivalent backend language; most teams use Go.
• Experience designing reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable systems at growing scale.
• Experience leading ambiguous technical projects, making architecture tradeoffs, communicating decisions, and mentoring engineers.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment centered on humility, openness, curiosity, care, and inclusive teamwork.
• Work spans high-scale distributed systems, SDKs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, observability, and AI capabilities.
• RSUs, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits are provided in addition to salary.
• High-trust and transparent approach to compensation and engineering work.