Senior Software Engineer (Java/Spring)

Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Salary: CAD 150,000–165,000 per year, plus a 5% variable annual bonus and potential RSU grant.

Company

hirify.global provides a commerce partnership marketing platform covering affiliate, influencer, content publisher, brand ambassador, and customer advocacy partnerships.

What you will do

• Build and own shared platform components, including service scaffolding, logging, observability, authentication, libraries, SDKs, shared services, and agentic tooling such as MCP servers, agents, skills, and plugins.
• Work with product teams to identify recurring problems, assess their impact with AI-assisted repository analysis, and decide what should be solved centrally.
• Design for platform-scale challenges, including API compatibility for consumers outside your control and migrations of live services without downtime.
• Drive adoption through rollout plans, migration tooling, upgrade guides, hands-on support, and measurement of adoption and reliability.
• Implement engineering blueprints as code through GitHub Actions CI/CD policy checks, template governance, and dependency policies.
• Shape service development through design reviews, technical proposals, and production-quality example code.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience, typically 5+ years, building production applications with Java and Spring.
• Experience building APIs, SDKs, shared libraries, or platform services that other engineers depend on.
• Sound judgment in platform design, including selecting worthwhile abstractions, setting opinionated defaults, and preserving appropriate extensibility.
• Experience driving change across team boundaries, including persuading and supporting teams through migrations.
• Disciplined use of AI tooling across planning, implementation, and validation, with the ability to identify incorrect output.
• Understanding of agentic tooling, including MCP servers, agents, skills, and plugins.
• Clear technical writing, documentation, and design proposals that support decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience building and supporting SaaS products.
• Experience beyond Java, particularly TypeScript or PHP.
• Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working environment with a Responsible PTO policy and focus on work-life balance.
• Extended health, prescription, vision, dental, virtual healthcare, out-of-country medical, life, and disability coverage, plus health spending and employee assistance programs.
• Mental health and wellness support, including up to 12 covered therapy or coaching sessions per year and a monthly gym reimbursement.
• RSUs with a three-year vesting schedule, subject to Board approval, plus a technology stipend and monthly internet allowance.
• Learning support through Coursera and PXA courses, along with paid parental leave of 26 weeks for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks for the secondary caregiver.
• Benefits may vary by location and are subject to local regulations.