Senior Backend Developer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $100,000–$150,000 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 foundational backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Develop request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event-processing capabilities.
• Design distributed systems that handle high traffic volumes with predictable latency and reliable failure-mode behavior.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, manage stakeholders, and make technical decisions across teams.
• Improve internal developer experience through platform engineering, design reviews, code reviews, and onboarding contributions.
• Mentor engineers and help shape engineering culture.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen, Green Card holder, EAD holder, or H-1B transfer candidate.
• 11+ years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, high-throughput messaging, streaming, event-driven architectures, and data storage systems.
• Experience leading cross-team platform initiatives, writing technical designs, communicating trade-offs, and mentoring engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer platforms at scale.
• Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with control-plane and data-plane patterns, service mesh internals, or workflow orchestration engines.
• Experience designing backward-compatible, versioned platform APIs.
• Public technical writing, conference talks, or community contributions on platform engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Opportunity to work on foundational platforms supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Career growth within an established technology consulting and software development organization.