Sr Software Engineer, Backend (AI)

Location: Remote, United States

Salary: $110,000–$160,000 annually, plus a possible annual bonus and benefits depending on the position.

Company

hirify.global develops digital learning solutions, educational platforms, and digital courseware for educators and learners worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, operate, and continuously improve scalable backend services using TypeScript and Go.
• Own services across architecture, delivery, production readiness, operational health, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Build and evolve GraphQL and REST APIs, schemas, resolvers, service contracts, versioning strategies, and safe migrations.
• Design distributed systems, independently deployable microservices, event producers and consumers, queues, topics, workers, and asynchronous processing.
• Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS using AWS services including DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, Secrets Manager, and ECR.
• Collaborate across engineering teams on shared-service integrations, technical contracts, dependency coordination, architecture, code reviews, production support, mentoring, observability, testing, and performance optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant experience building and operating production backend services.
• Strong professional experience developing backend services in both TypeScript and Go.
• Strong experience with microservices, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and GraphQL and REST API design.
• Experience building and operating event producers and consumers, including queues, topics, retries, and failure handling.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and databases such as MySQL/Aurora, DynamoDB, Redis, or graph databases.
• Experience delivering shared-service integrations across multiple teams or products and leading complex initiatives, influencing architecture, managing dependencies, and mentoring engineers.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, distributed tracing, centralized logging, New Relic or similar platforms, CI/CD, production operations, automated testing, and performance optimization.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a SOX- and/or SOC 2-compliant environment.
• Experience in EdTech or digital learning platforms.
• Experience with GraphQL federation, gqlgen, Apollo Server, Prisma, sqlc, Gremlin, or Amazon Neptune.
• AWS Certification.
• Experience building AI/ML-enabled backend services.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Datadog, or similar observability tools.
• Experience designing high-volume learning, engagement, analytics, or event-processing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement in the United States.
• Work focused on improving educational outcomes and shaping the future of digital learning.
• Collaborative cross-team delivery environment with opportunities for career growth.
• Possible annual bonus plan and a range of medical and other benefits depending on the position offered.