Staff Backend Engineer (Manufacturing)

Location: In-office at the headquarters in Downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States and must not require sponsorship now or in the future.

Company

hirify.global builds a manufacturing and logistics platform that connects businesses with flexible labor through a worker mobile app and business tools for real-time production scaling.

What you will do

• Build robust backend services and APIs for web and mobile application features.
• Own selected roadmap features across design, development, testing, release, and post-release support.
• Support internal users, gather feedback, and plan platform improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and promote maintainable, high-quality code through TDD and automated testing.
• Handle on-call incidents and participate in postmortem analysis and remediation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, or other backend engineering frameworks.
• 6+ years of industry experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, including database design and SQL.
• Experience mentoring junior developers.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or CircleCI, including ownership of the release process.
• Ability to break down complex problems, develop optimal solutions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to work in-office at the headquarters in Downtown Dallas.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes containerization and orchestration.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and monitoring on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience implementing and managing RabbitMQ, Kafka, or AWS SQS for asynchronous processing and inter-service communication.
• Understanding of frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Experience identifying and resolving distributed-system performance bottlenecks using profiling tools and load testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on a platform addressing labor constraints in manufacturing and logistics.
• Collaborative engineering environment focused on code quality, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
• On-call participation and postmortem-driven reliability improvements are part of the role.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to a diverse environment.