Software Engineer, Financial Data & Payments (Fintech)

Location: Denver, CO — Hybrid; New York, NY — Hybrid; San Francisco, CA — Hybrid; Seattle, WA — Remote. Hybrid employees work from the office approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role.

Cash compensation: $183,000–$200,000 per year in Denver and most remote locations; $222,000–$245,000 per year in San Francisco, Seattle, and New York.

Company

hirify.global builds payroll, health insurance, 401(k), and HR products for more than 500,000 small businesses, with a focus on financial and payment services.

What you will do

• Design, build, and test ledger, subledger, transaction, reconciliation, and financial reporting systems.
• Build traceable reconciliation and variance-investigation tooling, instrumentation, and runbooks.
• Own payment profiles, including payment methods, bank accounts, connections, and verification states for employers, employees, and contractors.
• Improve self-service bank setup and verification, including recovery from broken or revoked connections.
• Scale a large Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React application and drive end-to-end technical architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, Accounting, Finance, Compliance, Operations, and other cross-functional teams while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience and enthusiasm for a collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software and robust distributed systems using multiple general-purpose programming languages.
• Experience influencing and guiding multiple teams while scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products.
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production code that is maintainable, structured, and well documented.
• Ability to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous problems, communicate technical complexity, and facilitate informed tradeoffs.
• Experience building systems where correctness, auditability, and immutability take priority over raw throughput and silent data errors are unacceptable.
• Comfort with double-entry accounting, including journal entries, charts of accounts, debits, credits, and reconciling a subledger to the general ledger; ability to work with accountants and controllers.

Nice to have

• Experience with ledger or subledger design, financial reconciliation, accounting systems, or payments infrastructure.
• Experience with bank account verification, ACH, wire, RTP, or third-party banking data and verification providers.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment includes competitive base pay, benefits, and RSU equity.
• AI is a fundamental part of work, and employees are expected to use role-relevant AI tools and develop their AI fluency.
• Denver, San Francisco, and New York employees work from designated offices approximately 2–3 days per week or more depending on the role; Seattle is remote.
• Remote and non-office work requires a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection and regular, predictable availability.
• hirify.global provides reasonable accommodations during the hiring process and is an equal opportunity employer.