Software Engineer (Backend) (Java/JVM)

Location: On-site in Utrecht, Netherlands. The role supports European business hours and includes initial onboarding and training in St. George, Utah, with business travel covered.

Salary: €65,000–€85,000 gross per year, including 8% holiday allowance, paid in 12 equal monthly installments.

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered software for cross-border commerce, supporting checkout, customs clearance, payments, duties, taxes, and logistics for ecommerce merchants, postal operators, carriers, marketplaces, and customs agencies.

What you will do

• Develop, test, maintain, and deploy backend services and APIs for hirify.global products and platforms.
• Work primarily in the Java/JVM environment on systems processing high volumes of real-time transactions.
• Investigate and troubleshoot production issues during EMEA business hours and support system reliability.
• Collaborate with technical leads, US and APAC engineers, EMEA Customer Success, and Solutions teams to understand requirements and implement solutions.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic development tools while reviewing, testing, and validating generated code.
• Own features and fixes through development, deployment, follow-up, code review, and continuous engineering improvements.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, preferably with backend services or APIs.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or another backend programming language, with the ability to learn the Java/JVM environment.
• Understanding of REST APIs, databases, service integrations, and modern software development practices.
• Experience developing, debugging, and supporting production applications.
• Ability to work independently on defined problems, ask questions, and involve other engineers when needed.
• Comfort using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, or strong interest in incorporating them into the development workflow.
• Clear English communication and ability to collaborate across countries and time zones.
• Curiosity, resourcefulness, willingness to learn unfamiliar systems and technologies, and interest in understanding the business problems behind technical work.

Nice to have

• Experience with Java/JVM frameworks and microservices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, monitoring, or observability tools.
• Familiarity with ecommerce, payments, logistics, customs, or international trade.
• Experience working on globally distributed engineering teams.
• Experience investigating customer-reported technical issues or working with customer-facing technical teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Product-minded, hands-on engineering with guidance from experienced engineers and technical leads and ownership of delivered work.
• 20–25 days of annual paid vacation depending on experience, plus Dutch public holidays.
• Dutch pension scheme.
• Support for eligible highly skilled migrant visa and 30% ruling applications.
• Office-based work in Utrecht with collaboration across global engineering teams and opportunities to grow technical skills and responsibilities.
• Exposure to real-time transactions, international trade, AI, and software used by businesses worldwide.