Senior Backend Engineer (TypeScript/Node)

Location: Fully remote in Europe, with some overlap with GMT+3. Hiring across Europe from Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Czechia, and Romania.

Salary: €80,000–€110,000 annual salary, plus stock options.

Company

hirify.global builds tools that help brands discover, understand, and manage partnerships with online creators across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

What you will do

• Build and evolve systems that collect and maintain data for more than 400 million creator profiles across social platforms.
• Design resilient services that handle API instability, rate limits, provider outages, platform changes, and partial failures.
• Improve data coverage and freshness while controlling request, proxy, storage, and compute costs.
• Own systems end to end, from scoping and architecture through implementation, release, monitoring, and operational improvement.
• Collaborate with Data Search, Data Insights, product teams, and company leadership on system contracts and production-critical infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience building large-scale backend or data systems where reliability, throughput, latency, and cost matter.
• Experience taking systems from concept through production operation and iteration.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including partial failure, retries, idempotency, backpressure, scaling, and operational trade-offs.
• Experience building resilient integrations with rate-limited, unstable, or changing third-party APIs.
• Practical experience with proxy management, high-volume request routing, and anti-bot systems.
• Strong operational ownership, autonomy, communication, observability, alerting, and runbook practices.

Nice to have

• Experience with social-media APIs, data-quality frameworks, large-scale collection systems, or freshness and coverage monitoring.
• Curiosity about the creator economy.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work across Europe with flexible hours and a GMT+3 overlap.
• Unlimited paid vacation and regular in-person offsites.
• Support for courses, books, and conferences.
• Meaningful ownership of production-critical infrastructure in an async-first environment.
• Salary plus a significant stock-option package.

Hiring process

• Intro chat, coding interview, system design interview, team interview, and a culture and alignment conversation with the CEO.
• The process can be completed in under one week.