Principal Software Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid; applicants who reach the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.

Company

hirify.global operates a large global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications and develops infrastructure for performance, security, and reliability.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate transactional microservices for usage metering, aggregation, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and financial workflows.
• Own projects from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Build fault-tolerant systems that handle retries, failures, concurrency, and high transaction volumes while preserving financial correctness.
• Monitor production services, investigate billing issues, improve observability, and address recurring incidents.
• Participate in architecture reviews, make technical trade-offs, and improve engineering standards across the billing platform.
• Collaborate with Product, Finance, Accounting, Support, and engineering teams on complex business requirements.

Requirements

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems or backend services in production.
• Proficiency in Go or another modern programming language, with interest in working extensively with Go.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, service security, and standards such as OpenAPI, OAuth, or JWT.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Experience designing secure, highly available microservices in Linux or Unix environments.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and project ownership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with billing, payments, subscriptions, usage metering, invoicing, financial ledgers, or revenue recognition.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, or Temporal.
• Familiarity with reconciliation, idempotency, auditability, and financial data integrity.
• Experience leading technically complex projects across multiple teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with possible in-person interview attendance at a hirify.global office or hub at the offer stage.
• Culture focused on curiosity, iteration, practical problem-solving, and using AI as a development partner.
• Work on systems supporting billions in revenue and millions of customers across hirify.global products.
• hirify.global supports initiatives protecting journalism, civil society, election information, and the open Internet.
• Employment may be conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
• Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available during the application process.