Staff Backend Engineer (Data/API)

TL;DR

Team Lead Backend Engineer (Data/API Team): Architecting and scaling core API infrastructure that powers mission-critical workflows for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams with an accent on delivering low-latency, high-availability APIs that expose deep buyer insights. Focus on owning massive data and API infrastructure, setting a high bar for engineering excellence, and shipping fast in a high-urgency environment.

Location: Must be fully committed to working in-person 5 days/week at our SF HQ or fully remote.

Salary: $200,000– $240,000 USD base pay annually

Company

hirify.global is building the AI system that runs B2B sales and marketing.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of APIs that expose GTM data to internal and external users.
• Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale data access patterns, optimizing for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with AI, data, and frontend teams to ensure seamless integrations and clean API contracts.
• Tackle complex problems like versioning, rate-limiting, auth, query complexity, and cache invalidation across a fast-evolving product surface.
• Build internal tooling to improve engineering velocity and observability for our backend systems.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and testing in a fast-paced, high-output environment.

Requirements

• Ownership-first mindset and ability to take initiative and move fast.
• Thrive in early-stage, high-urgency environments where speed and impact matter.
• Fully committed to working in-person 5 days/week at our SF HQ.
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally with exposure to high-scale systems.
• Deep experience with modern backend stacks – we use Node.js , ClickHouse and AWS.
• Strong understanding of API design principles, query optimization, and distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to build something category-defining with people who care deeply about doing it right.
• Joining a company with real traction, rapid growth, and meaningful backing—where every person still shapes the outcome.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.