Principal Full Stack Engineer, TypeScript/Python (IoT)

Location: Boston, United States

Salary: USD 160,000–210,000 per year, plus an annual discretionary bonus and long-term incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global develops the nRF Cloud powered by Memfault platform, providing hardware teams with tools to monitor, debug, and update IoT devices in production.

What you will do

• Lead high-impact initiatives from discovery and architecture through execution, production rollout, and iteration.
• Partner with product and design, influence strategy, challenge assumptions, and shape the roadmap through technical insight and customer empathy.
• Improve the developer experience for firmware engineers across device discovery, integration, debugging, monitoring, and updates.
• Design and build reliable frontend and backend systems that scale with platform adoption.
• Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering patterns, and influence technical direction across the organization.
• Mentor engineers, champion large changes, and work across React/TypeScript frontends, Python backends, cloud infrastructure, and data systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years building and shipping web applications in production, with demonstrated impact at staff or principal level.
• Deep expertise in complex React/TypeScript frontends and scalable Python backends.
• Experience with Postgres, ClickHouse, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience influencing technical direction beyond the immediate team through architecture decisions, RFCs, cross-team alignment, or mentorship.
• Experience operating production systems, debugging incidents, writing postmortems, and building observability into shipped software.
• Ownership, initiative, collaboration, humility, and willingness to change technical opinions based on evidence.
• Curiosity about IoT devices, firmware engineering needs, cloud tooling, and AI applications for hardware product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT platforms, device management, or embedded systems tooling.
• Background in developer tools, developer experience, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with messaging systems or high-throughput data pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional and informal working environment with continuous opportunities to develop skills and expertise.
• Varied projects and collaboration with internationally recognized experts.
• Medical and dental benefits, including a 100% employer-paid option for employees.
• Health Savings Account or Flexible Spending Account, plus disability and life insurance options.
• 401(k) with employer match and family-friendly vacation, personal, sick, and parental leave.
• Professional development and mentorship opportunities.