Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$175,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed backend systems and high-throughput services using Java, Go, Scala, or similar languages.
• Architect data partitioning, replication, consistency, resilient APIs, and event-driven services.
• Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost through profiling, benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Design and operate relational, key-value, document, and search data stores at scale.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design discussions, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Mentor engineers and partner with SRE and platform teams on reliability, observability, documentation, and long-term platform strategy.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States and authorized to work as a U.S. Citizen, Green Card Holder, EAD Holder, or H-1B transfer candidate.
• New H-1B visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Ten or more years of professional backend engineering experience, including significant distributed systems experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or similar languages, with deep knowledge of consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• Experience with Kafka, cloud platforms, SQL, relational and NoSQL data stores, debugging, root-cause analysis, documentation, and mentorship.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Opportunity to contribute to mission-critical systems and long-term technical roadmaps.
• Career growth within an established technology consulting and software development organization.