Back Office Developer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago or New York, United States

Base salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD per year, plus discretionary bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global is a proprietary financial services firm using its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets.

What you will do

• Develop and operate back-office systems supporting traders, risk management, accounting, and related operations.
• Build real-time and batch data processing for trade, position, and operational information.
• Generate daily reports from overnight data and monitor scheduled jobs against start-of-day and end-of-day deadlines.
• Design database schemas and maintain reliable data flows for accurate intraday trade and position data.
• Collaborate with software engineers, risk management, accounting, traders, settlements, and middle-office staff.

Requirements

• Senior professional-level Python, including typing, packaging, concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning.
• Production ownership of scheduled and batch data systems with hard deadlines, including retries, idempotency, alerting, and recovery.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, migrations, query tuning, and data integrity controls.
• Experience with workflow orchestration such as Airflow or an equivalent, plus CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automated testing, code review, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident follow-through.
• Daily working fluency with Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket.
• Practical experience applying AI through LLM APIs for automation or analysis and AI coding assistants with human review.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineering stakeholders in operations, accounting, settlements, and middle office.
• Ability to mentor junior and mid-level developers and make independent design decisions.

Nice to have

• Trade lifecycle knowledge for futures and options, including trade capture, allocations, give-ups, clearing, settlements, reconciliation, commissions and fees, margin, and PnL.
• Experience with trading and position platforms, broker and clearer file formats, SFTP, and FIX or drop-copy ingestion.
• Reconciliation and data quality frameworks, audit trails, and migration of legacy jobs and servers to cleaner architectures without disrupting daily operations.
• DevOps and SRE experience with Docker, infrastructure as code, Prometheus, Grafana, and structured logging.
• Exposure to on-premises, bare-metal, and cloud infrastructure; agent patterns with tools, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Light frontend skills for internal tools and dashboards.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a small team serving trading, risk management, accounting, and operations functions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA, FSA, and dependent care options.
• Employer-paid group term life and AD&D insurance, with voluntary LTD, life, and AD&D options.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Retirement plan with employer match.
• Discretionary bonus eligibility.

Hiring process

• Base compensation is determined by experience, education, skills, and performance during the interview process.
• Search firms may submit resumes only with a valid written agreement with hirify.global; unsolicited submissions are not accepted.