Senior Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech): Develop and maintain highly scalable and performant microservice-based backend systems for a trading and investing platform with an accent on service architecture, performance, and resilience. Focus on designing and implementing robust APIs, optimizing database performance, and ensuring system reliability under strict uptime and latency requirements.

Location: Sofia or Plovdiv

Company

hirify.global is a fintech product company serving over 4.5 million clients with more than €30 billion in assets under management, focused on reinventing trading and investing.

What you will do

• Develop end-to-end solutions considering business problems, service architecture, and infrastructure.
• Lead full software development lifecycle including design, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Build for performance, scale, and resilience in a high-availability environment.
• Collaborate in autonomous agile teams with short release cycles.
• Share knowledge and grow through mutual feedback.

Requirements

• Location: Sofia or Plovdiv
• Experience with microservice architectures and scalable systems.
• Familiarity with HTTP, WebSockets, and AMQP communication protocols.
• Experience with at least one web framework in any language.
• Strong understanding of RDBMS concepts including indexing, transactions, and locking.

Nice to have

• Experience with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.
• Ongoing or completed computer science education.

Culture & Benefits

• Challenging work enabling fast career growth.
• Opportunity to impact millions of investors.
• Collaborate with smart, driven colleagues.
• Flexible environment with no rigid processes.
• Generous remuneration including annual bonuses.
• Private health insurance, sports card, and 25 days paid vacation.
• Office perks including treats and a game room.