Backend Engineer

Location: San Mateo, CA, United States; onsite five days per week

Annual pay range: $140,000–$140,000 USD

Company

hirify.global develops an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices.
• Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components.
• Design scalable control planes and data primitives with high availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and deploy microservices, including service design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, firmware, and frontend engineering teams on customer-facing product features.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best-practice initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week.
• Independent authorization to work in the United States is required.
• Visa sponsorship and sponsorship takeover are not available for this role.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee healthcare, vision, and dental coverage, including fully covered employee premiums under at least one healthcare plan.
• HSA employer contributions, FSA options, mental health support, parental leave, and fertility benefits.
• Paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
• Professional development and fertility stipends, wellness and fitness benefits, daily healthy lunches, and commuter benefits.