Tech Lead (Parental Control)

Location: Perm or Moscow, hybrid; flexible schedule from 10:00 to 19:00.

Company

hirify.global is a global commerce company providing funding, distribution, marketing, and monetization services for video game developers, operating as a merchant of record.

What you will do

• Build a parental-control service that verifies player age and obtains parental consent before a child can purchase.
• Write production Go and TypeScript for the status API, token validation, consent rules, standalone widget, and web SDK.
• Own, document, and evolve the service architecture.
• Hire and grow a team of about six backend, frontend, and QA engineers, including role design, interviewing, and onboarding.
• Establish code review, CI, releases, on-call practices, and AI coding tools in repositories.
• Work with Legal and Security on requirements, dependencies, release gates, and protection of children's data.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including Go as the main language for the last 3+ years; continued production coding and shipping required.
• 2+ years as a tech lead or team lead for 4+ engineers, with experience building a team or a substantial part of one and hiring engineers.
• Backend expertise in API design, PostgreSQL, message queues, idempotent third-party API integrations, and workflow orchestration using Temporal or a similar tool.
• TypeScript experience sufficient to review React or Angular code and design a small embeddable web SDK.
• Security fundamentals for identity flows: JWT, OAuth2, webhook signatures, XSS, CSRF, and CSP.
• Operations experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, tracing, metrics, and on-call ownership for a service.
• Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, including repository setup.
• English at B2 level or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Employment agreement and full-time employment.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, PTO, and benefits supporting employees and their families.
• Personalized career roadmap, training, and educational opportunities.
• Supportive environment focused on employee well-being, creativity, collaboration, and inclusion.