Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Location: New York, NY, United States; full-time onsite role.

Salary: $176,000–$183,500 annual base salary for New York; geographic-specific salary structures may apply.

Company

hirify.global is a product-oriented technology company building a consumer-facing platform.

What you will do

• Build highly scalable and reliable additions to the platform.
• Own delivery, deployment, maintenance, and performance monitoring of applications and the platform.
• Evaluate platform tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors with senior team members.
• Write performant, concise, secure, and scalable code; review peer code.
• Contribute to the technical debt and feature backlog and identify platform improvements.
• Collaborate across teams and take ownership of upstream and downstream dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, programming, or engineering-related field.
• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable consumer-facing applications; e-commerce experience is preferred.
• Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, performant software designed for future evolution.
• Experience with complex systems composed of multiple networked components and highly available distributed systems, including 4x9s uptime or similar.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud-based offerings, Docker or similar containerized solutions, and CI/CD tools such as Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar.
• Service automated testing experience, including JUnit/testing, Mockito, and JMeter or Gatling.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms; experience building observability into applications and modeling system resource requirements as load changes.
• Ability to lead as an individual contributor through prioritization, self-management, and collaboration across teams to drive results.
• Commitment to improving customer experience, avoiding poor customer impact during outages, and maintaining service availability.
• Accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependencies.

Nice to have

• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or a similar NoSQL database.
• E-commerce application experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, product-oriented technology environment.
• Competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k).
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, plus company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off, flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
• Discounted meals and exclusive perks across the hirify.global family of brands.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and objective evaluation of candidates.

Hiring process

• Interview scheduling and candidacy information are shared by email or text.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the interview process.