Staff Software Engineer, Product

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer, Product: Lead high-impact projects to scale hirify.global’s technical foundation and unlock new product capabilities with an accent on architecture, reliability, security, and maintainability. Focus on mentoring engineers, leading technical reviews, and modeling high-context, low-friction collaboration.

Location: New York / San Francisco (Hybrid)

Salary: $202,800 - $330,000 a year

Company

hirify.global helps scale technical foundations and unlocks new product capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead design efforts across infra layers—data pipelines, platform boundaries, service interactions—looking past team lines to improve overall architecture.
• Take on large, technically complex projects that require coordination, influence, and deep attention to reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers, review technical proposals, and contribute to team norms and standards around architecture, testing, and observability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience leading projects spanning multiple teams.
• Experience designing distributed systems, scaling core infrastructure, and navigating complexity to identify impact.
• Exceptional product instincts and the ability to connect technical decisions to user and business outcomes.
• Strong coding proficiency in a backend language (e.g., Go, Java, Python) and system-level debugging skills.
• Track record of mentorship, elevating technical quality across teams, and influencing without authority.
• High-trust, low-ego communication: you write clearly, listen deeply, and lead with curiosity rather than certainty.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.