Staff Software Engineer (Fintech)

Location: US - Austin, TX; at least 3 days per week in the office required. The role is performed in an office setting and requires 5–10% travel.

Salary: $133,300–$213,400 USD per year, with potential bonus, equity, and applicable sales incentives.

Company

hirify.global develops global payments technology that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product, design, data, QA, operations, compliance, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Translate functional requirements into system designs, define component interactions, and lead design reviews.
• Build, enhance, and maintain reusable, extensible software components, developer tools, and automation.
• Lead code reviews, improve quality through metrics and best practices, and create complex test plans to identify and resolve defects.
• Analyze data, monitoring signals, and production issues; participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development and GenAI solutions, and recommend technical improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree, 2+ years with an Advanced Degree, 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant experience without the stated degree pathways.
• Experience in software engineering or a directly related field, including development or implementation of web-based or mobile applications.
• Experience in a leadership role, with or without direct reports, and in mentoring or influencing technical direction.
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, executing testing procedures, debugging, troubleshooting, code review, and applying coding standards.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, building or enhancing developer tools, and delivering technical solutions.
• Practical exposure to AI/ML or GenAI, including assessing use cases, integration approaches, limitations, risks, and production readiness.
• Advanced Java proficiency, including concurrency, collections, JVM fundamentals, performance tuning, and modern language features.
• Strong backend experience with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, JPA/Hibernate, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, relational and NoSQL databases, SQL, caching, and messaging platforms such as Kafka or NATS.
• Knowledge of modern frontend development with Angular or React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, component architecture, state management, accessibility, and secure REST API integration.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure environments, and CI/CD tools such as Maven, Gradle, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of secure coding, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, API security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security standards.
• Experience with logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, JUnit, Mockito, automated integration testing, code-quality tools, and test-driven development.
• Understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, model APIs, AI agents, evaluation, and responsible-AI practices, including integrating AI services through APIs or SDKs.

Nice to have

• 6+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree, 4+ years with an Advanced Degree, or up to 3 years with a PhD.
• Experience building high-volume, highly available consumer- or client-facing platforms.
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms and managed AI services.
• Experience prototyping or delivering RAG, semantic search, conversational AI, or agentic workflow solutions.
• Knowledge of model evaluation, hallucination mitigation, AI observability, token and infrastructure cost management, and privacy controls.
• Familiarity with Spring AI, LangChain4j, LangChain, or equivalent AI integration frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with work hours varying according to department needs.
• Hybrid office arrangement requiring at least 3 days in the office.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
• The position may include bonus, equity, and applicable sales incentive payments.
• Work involves 5–10% travel and participation in on-call rotations.