Senior Software Engineer (Data Platform)

Location: Work from anywhere; comfortable with US timezones required.

Salary: $40K–$100K per year, plus 0.05%–0.25% equity.

Company

hirify.global builds AI-powered legal infrastructure with human lawyers in the loop, helping rightsholders turn complex legal workflows into scalable revenue.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own production backend services and APIs end to end.
• Improve data ingestion through crawlers, third-party data providers, and database-loading pipelines.
• Make data collection reliable and cost-efficient through proxy strategies, rate limits, retries, and vendor evaluation.
• Build and operate high-throughput queues, consumers, large-dataset workflows, and observability.
• Ship product features from API design through production.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience building production backends in Go, Node.js, Python, or similar; the posting also lists 3+ years of experience.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, other databases, and AWS services including ECS, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Experience building data ingestion or crawling systems at scale and handling unreliable external sources.
• Strong understanding of production-grade system design principles.
• Comfort using AI coding tools such as Claude and Codex.
• Comfort working with US timezones.

Nice to have

• Production experience with web scraping, residential or mobile proxies, or headless browsers.
• Experience with very large datasets and analytical OLAP workloads.
• Strong cost-optimization and build-versus-buy judgment when selecting vendors.
• Experience building with LLM APIs or agents.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully distributed team working from anywhere, with a focus on output rather than location or working hours.
• Generous paid time off policy.
• Competitive salary and 0.05%–0.25% equity.
• AI-powered legal infrastructure company backed by Y Combinator and FundersClub.

Hiring process

• Include a note of no more than 100 words describing the most complex data ingestion or backend system built as the sole or primary developer, including technical details, scale, and the hardest failure handled. Applications without the note or without the minimum requirements will not be considered.
• Up to four rounds: a 15-minute background and technical screening, a 45-minute programming interview, a 45-minute system design discussion with hands-on work, and an HR round.
• AI coding tools are allowed during the programming interview; feedback is shared after every round and a decision is targeted within 14 days.