Staff Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Go/Ruby): Designing, developing, and maintaining high-scale web applications and banking services with an accent on architecture, resilience, scalability, and robustness. Focus on producing high-quality, well-documented code following Domain-Driven Design principles and growing technical leadership.

Location: Remote. Must be based in or willing to relocate to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Company

hirify.global is building Europe's leading finance workspace for SMEs, offering business-class tools for invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting, combined with 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 service 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 and exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Pragmatic and product-driven, with an interest in solving problems and delivering value to customers.
• Quality-driven, following best practices regarding code quality, testing, and code reviews.
• Good communication skills, comfortable working in a team, and able to collaborate with non-technical colleagues.
• Fluent in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade with a competitive salary package.
• Meal vouchers and public transportation reimbursement.
• Comprehensive health insurance (depending on the country).
• Employee well-being initiatives, including access to Moka Care and offers for sports and wellness activities.
• Progressive disability and parenthood policy, plus childcare benefits with selected partners.
• Monthly team events.
• Emphasis on upfront technical designs, quality, and continuous improvement (Kaizen, PDCA).
• Provided licenses for Cursor or Copilot to enhance coding efficiency.

Hiring process

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers.
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills.