Staff Software Engineer - SDET (Fintech)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; hybrid with at least 3 days in the office. The position requires 5–10% travel and is performed in an office setting.

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

Company

hirify.global develops global payments technology facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define product component requirements and translate them into system designs.
• Design, develop, and maintain extensible software components while leading design and code reviews.
• Create complex test plans, identify test gaps, address defects, and improve automated testing and quality practices.
• Use debugging, data analysis, monitoring, and automation tools to identify patterns, troubleshoot issues, and improve product performance.
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations and support incident resolution across environments.
• Build and enhance developer tools, estimate project work, and recommend technical improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree, or at least 2 years with an advanced degree, or 0 years with a PhD; alternatively, 8+ years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to collaborate across Development, QA, DevOps, Product, Architecture, Production Support, and other cross-functional teams.
• Ownership across software development, quality engineering, automation, deployment, production validation, and production support.
• Understanding of shift-left testing, automated testing, performance testing, defect management, and root cause analysis.
• Ability to use emerging technologies, including Generative AI tools, in everyday engineering work.

Nice to have

• Experience driving adoption of GenAI and AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Experience promoting secure, responsible, and compliant use of GenAI while protecting code quality, data, intellectual property, and compliance standards.
• Experience mentoring engineers in development, testing, automation, troubleshooting, and modern engineering practices.
• Ability to influence engineering standards and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Culture & Benefits

• Approximately 60–75% of the role is hands-on coding with code, data, modern tools, cloud services, and automation frameworks.
• Work hours vary according to department needs.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
• The role follows security standards, regulatory requirements, and responsible engineering practices.