Staff Software Engineer (APIs)

Location: Remote throughout the US; unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC. An office option is available in Manhattan, NY.

Salary: $169,000–$185,000 per year, plus potential equity, bonus, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds products that help families, coaches, parents, and volunteers experience and support youth sports.

What you will do

• Lead the technical design, delivery, launch, and operation of integrations and API products.
• Establish reusable standards for API contracts, authentication and authorization, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, webhooks, documentation, and developer experience.
• Design integrations across internal services and external systems, addressing dependencies, failure modes, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and future use cases.
• Define reliability, observability, support, incident-response, service-health, SLI, SLO, and operational-metric practices.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Business Development to translate partner needs into technical plans and prioritize investments.
• Mentor engineers, improve backend and API expertise, evaluate build-versus-buy options, document architectural tradeoffs, and participate in an occasional on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating integrations or developer-facing APIs as products.
• Deep knowledge of API design and lifecycle management, including authentication and authorization, versioning, backwards compatibility, rate limiting, documentation, and developer experience.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed, high-scale production systems with strong security, reliability, observability, and performance characteristics.
• Experience leading substantial initiatives across multiple teams or services from problem definition through production operation.
• Experience defining production-readiness standards, service-health metrics, incident practices, and longer-term reliability investments.
• Experience aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders, resolving cross-team ambiguity, and connecting technical decisions to customer and business outcomes.
• Experience mentoring engineers, including senior engineers, and improving engineering practices across collaborating teams.
• Ability to lead through influence, direct contribution, and follow-through while taking accountability for outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience working with third-party developers, strategic partners, API consumers, or platform ecosystems.
• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work throughout the US or access to a modern office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation policy and paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology stipend of $4,000 every two years, plus a $500 annual work-from-home stipend.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness, learning, and lifestyle stipends.
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, family/dependent coverage, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with an immediate company match, parental leave, family-building benefits, and teammate discounts.

Hiring process

• Candidates are asked not to use AI tools during interviews and assessments unless explicitly permitted.