Staff Backend Engineer (Finance)

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Go): Design, develop, deploy, and maintain highly scalable APIs and robust banking services with an accent on service architecture, resilience, and scalability. Focus on co-owning service architecture, mentoring other engineers, and delivering high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.

Location: You can choose to work in hirify.global as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Company

hirify.global is a rapidly growing European fintech company creating a finance workspace for SMEs, serving over 600,000 customers with business-class tools and 24/7 support.

What you will do

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain new and existing applications to meet team goals and stakeholder needs.
• Produce and ship high-quality, well-documented code.
• Co-own services architecture, resilience, scalability, and robustness, respecting Domain-Driven Design principles.
• Grow on technical leadership and mentorship of other engineers.

Requirements

• Solid experience as a software engineer working on user-facing products.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Pragmatic and product-driven engineer with an interest in solving problems and delivering value to customers.
• Follow best practices regarding code quality, testing, and code reviews.
• Good communication skills and comfortable working in a team, and can easily work with non-technical colleagues.
• English: C1+ required (fluent in English).
• Location: Must be living in or willing to relocate to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Culture & Benefits

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade.
• Competitive salary package.
• Meal vouchers and public transportation reimbursement (part or global).
• Health insurance (depending on the country).
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care for mental health, and offers for sports and wellness activities.
• Progressive disability and parenthood policy, and childcare benefits with selected partners.
• Monthly team events.
• Emphasis on quality, continuous improvement (Kaizen, PDCA), and engineer autonomy.
• Licenses for Cursor or Copilot provided.

Hiring process

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers.
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills.
• Process typically lasts 20 working days, and offers usually follow within 48 hours.