Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Location: United States (Remote); San Francisco office location. Salary and office requirements vary by U.S. location.

Salary: $150,000–$240,000 annually, plus equity depending on location, experience, and scope.

Company

hirify.global provides a Specialized Intelligence platform that captures how work happens and turns it into living assets for people and AI agents.

What you will do

• Build and ship backend features in the Django monolith, including established workflows and greenfield projects.
• Improve performance and reliability across critical workflows by optimizing services, database queries, endpoints, and caching layers.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to deliver reliable experiences at scale.
• Contribute to technical discussions and balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
• Maintain strong engineering practices through code review, automated testing, and observability.
• Own a product area end to end, from design through post-launch results, across Agents, Docs, Growth, or Optimize.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building backend applications at high scale and availability.
• Extensive Python experience.
• Demonstrated experience optimizing endpoint performance and database queries.
• Strong advocacy for automated testing and a track record of implementing engineering best practices.
• User-centric, empathetic, and passionate approach to the work.

Nice to have

• Django experience.
• Startup experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Open-ended engineering problems with ownership of what to build and how it performs.
• Low-ego, high-standard, collaborative environment.
• Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage, including two $0/month medical plan options.
• Equity, 401(k), flexible paid time off, company holidays, paid parental leave, and a $500 annual flex benefit.
• Commuter benefits for San Francisco-based employees plus wellness and family-support benefits.

Hiring process

• Engineers may apply by sending a POST request to the application endpoint with full_name, email, github_url, and resume_url in the JSON body, or use the application button.