Senior Backend Engineer (Search Features & APIs)

Location: Remote; fully remote team with the option to choose where you live

Base salary: $80,000–$120,000 USD per year, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results; stock options are offered separately.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-first e-commerce search and discovery platform helping shoppers find products and global e-commerce brands improve revenue and conversion.

What you will do

• Own the design and delivery of features and components for product discovery services handling autocomplete, search, browse, and recommendations.
• Design and evolve public API endpoints while maintaining backward compatibility and contributing to service architecture.
• Improve performance and reliability by addressing latency and failure hotspots, adding observability, and ensuring graceful degradation.
• Participate in design and code reviews, mentor mid-level engineers, and lead projects with other engineers.
• Work with product, solutions/support, and engineering teams to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and follow issues through to resolution in production.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience building and operating production backend services, ideally high-traffic or low-latency systems, including on-call responsibility.
• Extensive Python knowledge as the primary programming language.
• Hands-on experience with observability using metrics, logs, and traces, plus debugging performance issues in live systems.
• Experience designing and evolving public APIs used by external customers.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.
• Track record of delivering projects end to end, including leading small efforts with other engineers.
• Clear written communication for design documents, RFCs, and postmortems; good judgment about trade-offs and scope.
• Comfort with ambiguity, loosely defined problems, feedback, and changing direction when warranted.
• Ownership extending beyond code merge to production behavior and system reliability.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS.
• Background in search, ranking, information retrieval, or e-commerce product discovery.
• Exposure to AI/LLM-facing infrastructure, MCP, agent tooling, or similar systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with the choice of where to live.
• Unlimited vacation, with at least three weeks per year strongly encouraged.
• Work-from-home stipend and Apple laptop provided for new employees.
• Annual training and development budget, plus maternity and paternity leave for qualified employees.
• Regular team offsites and a collaborative environment focused on growth and meaningful impact.