Software Engineer - Platform (Java)

Location: Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, or Kolding, Denmark

Company

hirify.global develops IoT technology and software for the construction industry, supporting customers with platforms designed to reduce equipment downtime.

What you will do

• Improve, extend, and operate live platform domains, including telemetry storage and APIs, the event system, and the alerting engine.
• Build and run services in a modern cloud-based microservice and event-driven architecture.
• Design migration paths when architectures or data formats change.
• Collaborate with internal product teams building on the platform.
• Maintain reliability, observability, quality, and performance at high data volumes without disrupting production.

Requirements

• Backend development experience with strong Java skills.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and REST APIs.
• Experience building and operating services in a modern cloud-based microservice and event-driven architecture.
• Comfort working with live production systems, high data volumes, and migration paths.
• Ability to consider quality, observability, reliability, and performance.
• Curiosity, willingness to discuss technical topics, and interest in learning beyond immediate assignments.
• Willingness to use AI tools as an integrated part of the engineering workflow; deep prior AI experience is not required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Flink and stateful processing, or willingness to learn.
• Experience with relational databases, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer feedback directly informs the roadmap and product decisions.
• Work on a platform with 8 domains, 20+ webhook event types, 10 configurable alert types, approximately 20,000 active configurations, and approximately 200,000 weekday events.
• Receive scoped assignments, pairing, code reviews, and support from experienced domain experts.
• Small, frequent releases allow features to reach production quickly.
• Work with a global team and company culture that embraces remote work and inspiring work environments.

Hiring process

• Complete an initial phone conversation, followed by a virtual meet and greet with the potential leader and a team member.
• Prepare and present an assignment-specific case during an interview with the hiring manager and a lead engineer.
• References and background checks may be conducted where relevant, followed by an offer presentation.