Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days per week in the San Francisco or New York office, or remote. Relocation assistance to San Francisco or New York is available if needed.

Salary: $180K–$300K plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-native tax solution that combines AI agents, human expertise, and global compliance for more than 3,500 businesses.

What you will do

• Build and evolve the public API and MCP server for customers, developers, and AI tools.
• Develop integrations with billing platforms and ERPs, including data synchronization and workflow automation.
• Improve infrastructure for reliable APIs, background jobs, and data pipelines as transaction volumes grow.
• Own projects end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout and ongoing operation.
• Improve observability, performance, and incident response using logs, metrics, and tracing.
• Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and container tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating backend software or platform systems in production.
• Strong backend engineering skills with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, or comparable technologies.
• Experience building APIs, integrations, or data pipelines with strong attention to correctness, error handling, and maintainability.
• Practical experience with AWS or another cloud platform and containerized workloads using ECS, Kubernetes, or similar tools.
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including retries, idempotency, queues, and failure recovery.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and take ownership of production outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, tax, accounting, or other systems requiring accurate and auditable financial data.
• Experience integrating billing platforms or ERPs.
• Experience building public APIs, developer tooling, or MCP servers.
• Infrastructure or platform engineering experience with Terraform, CI/CD, or observability tooling.
• Experience with event-driven systems or evolving the architecture of a growing application.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with office collaboration in San Francisco or New York, or a remote arrangement.
• Equity participation alongside competitive compensation.
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Wellness benefits including Headspace and the Peloton One App.
• 401(k), office meals and snacks, team offsites, and company events.
• A culture centered on ownership and meaningful technical impact.