Lead Engineer - Making Payments (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, based in Sydney or Melbourne, Australia, with in-office collaboration on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Company

hirify.global develops a global business platform, including payments capabilities that help small businesses manage bill payments and cash flow.

What you will do

• Define and build reliable, scalable, performant, and secure services for the Payments Platform.
• Set the technical direction and create sequenced delivery plans for bill payments and money movement capabilities.
• Stay hands-on through production coding, proof-of-concepts, architecture work, and technical deep dives.
• Solve complex fintech and distributed-systems challenges involving global payment rails, orchestration, compliance, and fraud.
• Drive reliability, security, observability, testability, and on-call health through design reviews and engineering practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Principal Engineers, and partner teams in North America; mentor engineers across career stages.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in a senior technical role such as Staff Engineer or Tech Lead, delivering highly available distributed backend systems at scale.
• Experience in payments, fintech, or another regulated environment is preferred within the stated senior technical background.
• Strong system architecture and API design skills, including choosing between synchronous APIs and asynchronous event-based designs.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language; C# is a bonus, while Java, Go, or C++ are also suitable.
• Cloud-native experience, ideally with AWS, and experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to break complex problems into actionable plans while maintaining security, testability, observability, and on-call health.
• Ability to build cross-functional relationships and coach engineers at different career stages.
• Hands-on use of AI tools and willingness to explore how AI can strengthen the platform.

Nice to have

• Experience with payments, fintech, or another regulated space.
• Experience with C# and AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work combining modern office collaboration with work from home.
• Boost days bring the team together in person on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Work with a globally distributed team across Australia and the United States.
• Opportunity to shape foundational systems supporting future revenue and product lines.
• Emphasis on inclusion, collaboration, engineering excellence, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Hiring process

• Applications are screened with AI-assisted tools based on job-related qualifications, followed by human recruiter review; automated tools do not make hiring decisions.
• Applications are welcomed from candidates whose experience is not a perfect match.