Senior Backend Engineer - Gateway (Java, AWS, DynamoDB)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid working with an expectation of three days per week on site. Employees may work remotely from abroad for up to 30 additional days per year.

Company

hirify.global provides a local payments platform that enables companies such as PayPal, Stripe, and Microsoft to connect with consumers worldwide.

What you will do

• Build and maintain hirify.global’s main payment processing engine exposed through the hirify.global API.
• Own products and services end to end, from design through production rollout.
• Operate services with a “you build it, you run it” ahirify.globalach, potentially participating in an on-call rotation.
• Design scalable, reliable, secure, cost-efficient, and auditable payment-processing solutions.
• Collaborate through pair programming, ADRs, RFCs, knowledge sharing, and brainstorming.
• Help reduce customer integration effort and the time required to enable new payment methods.

Requirements

• Experience designing and building scalable products and services.
• Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and solution-focused mindset.
• Ability to break down complex problems into manageable deliverables.
• Strong writing and drawing skills for communicating technical ideas and problem context.
• Working proficiency in English.
• Knowledge and experience with most of the following: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, AWS EKS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, OpenSearch, event-driven microservice architecture, Datadog observability, and Terraform-based infrastructure as code.

Nice to have

• Payments background.
• Hands-on experience with AI as a software engineer.

Culture & Benefits

• High-trust, people-first environment with autonomy, end-to-end ownership, collaborative teamwork, and continuous learning.
• Hybrid work with three days per week on site and up to 30 additional remote-work days abroad per year.
• 30-day holiday allowance and a €1,000 annual learning and development budget.
• Leadership cafés, on-the-job training, insurance coverage, enhanced family leave, and mental health support.
• Gym membership contribution and a pet-friendly office.