Tech Lead (Backend/AI)

Location: Bulgaria; hybrid

Salary: €6,000–€8,000 monthly

Company

hirify.global builds financial infrastructure for B2B commerce, including payments, automated financial workflows, and purchasing experiences.

What you will do

• Own the full software development lifecycle from ideation and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to long-term technical strategy and platform evolution.
• Help shift the software development lifecycle toward agentic development.
• Support rapid business growth through scalable platform engineering.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data teams, engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and collaborative problem-solving.

Requirements

• Curiosity about and active experimentation with how AI changes the software development lifecycle.
• 7+ years of experience building production-grade backend applications.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and service-oriented architectures.
• Significant practical experience building distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale production databases, including PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB, plus data modeling, indexing, query optimization, and database performance tuning.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and/or serverless architectures.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, clean code principles, design patterns, and Agile development environments.

Nice to have

• Frontend experience with React or similar frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work in Bulgaria.
• Collaboration across Product, Design, Data, Engineering, and other stakeholder groups.
• Opportunities to provide technical mentorship and contribute to platform strategy.