Software Developer (Backstage)

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom; based in Belfast three days a week. Candidates must currently reside in Northern Ireland and have full UK Right to Work.

Salary: £450–£500 per day, inside IR35.

Company

hirify.global is a global technology consultancy delivering engineering teams to a provider of energy trading software. The Developer Experience Hub builds tools, platforms, and workflows used by engineering teams.

What you will do

• Maintain and extend the Backstage developer portal with features and integrations.
• Surface delivery metrics, deployment information, and system-health indicators.
• Support GitHub and Azure DevOps users and deliver migration work from TeamCity and Octopus to GitHub.
• Improve application and deployment templates, CI/CD workflows, scripting, and Helm charts.
• Link components, deployments, and cloud resources for ownership, environment, and cost reporting.
• Write tested maintainable code, participate in reviews, document changes, and contribute to test environments, .NET Aspire work, and responsible use of generative AI in development and testing.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on software development background, particularly in backend services, integrations, or internal tooling.
• Experience delivering maintainable software with automated tests, version control, and code review.
• Confidence working with APIs, service integrations, and distributed systems, including investigating unfamiliar codebases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts, pipeline automation, and scripting.
• Clear communication, collaboration, and willingness to document decisions.
• Commercial experience with C#, .NET, TypeScript, or Node.js is highly advantageous.
• Experience with Backstage, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS or AKS, and Helm is advantageous.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, Terraform, .NET Aspire, or AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude Code is desirable.

Culture & Benefits

• Development-first contract role focused on solving engineering problems through code.
• Work within an agreed technical direction alongside the permanent team and hand over supportable solutions.
• Modern stack including Backstage, .NET, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes.
• Contract pays up to £500 per day inside IR35.
• Visa sponsorship is not provided.

Hiring process

• Two-stage interview process.
• Contact Jordan Madden for a confidential conversation about the role.