Lead Software Engineer (Federated GraphQL)

Location: Hybrid role assigned to the Richardson, Texas hub, with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027. Applicants must be eligible to work lawfully in the United States immediately; visa sponsorship is not available.

Potential starting salary: $123,000–$142,000 per year, plus potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.

Company

hirify.global helps people, invests in communities, and provides insurance services.

What you will do

• Build the GraphQL layer that unifies policy data across lines of business and policy systems for applications, digital experiences, and AI.
• Define federated entities, schemas, composition, evolution patterns, and enterprise architecture with architects and data model stewards.
• Build federated subgraphs connected to databases, policy administration APIs, or owned read models.
• Collaborate with architecture, consuming domains, policy administration teams, and the GraphQL platform team.
• Own p99 performance targets through load testing, profiling, and tuning.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Production experience designing and operating federated GraphQL, including entities, keys, and schema composition and evolution across teams, such as Apollo Federation or similar.
• Backend development experience with one or more of Go, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly and use AI coding assistants effectively in daily work.
• Experience integrating services with other systems and handling slow or failing dependencies using timeouts, retries, and batching.
• Experience building automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests that prevent regressions.
• Collaborative engineering approach, including pairing, thoughtful code reviews, and constructive debate with teammates and partner teams.

Nice to have

• Led federated GraphQL adoption or schema governance across multiple teams.
• Experience with Go GraphQL and gqlgen, or Java GraphQL frameworks such as Spring for GraphQL or Netflix DGS.
• Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow engine for long-running processes.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving latency or throughput issues with Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, or another APM tool.
• Experience building APIs on Kubernetes or OpenShift and AWS.
• Experience with canonical or industry data models such as ACORD.
• Insurance industry experience, gRPC, event-driven systems, or caching.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a standard 38:45-hour work week and hybrid office/home work arrangement.
• Annual raise and bonus eligibility, healthcare coverage, vision, dental, telemedicine, and mental health support.
• Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, mentoring, and financial coaching.
• Up to 20 days initially earned annually, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
• Retirement benefits through a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.