Senior Software Engineer (Payments)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Payments): Leading design and implementation of resilient, scalable, and maintainable payment systems with an accent on architectural challenges, reliability, and embedded finance readiness. Focus on making informed technical decisions, championing engineering best practices, and collaborating to translate technical groundwork into product features.

Location: Remote (to GMT +2 time zone) or Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global powers over 11,000 hair and beauty salons globally with its number one salon software brand.

What you will do

• Redesign and improve core components of the Payments solution for resilience, scalability, and maintainability.
• Tackle complex architectural and infrastructure challenges to stabilize critical payment flows and ensure long-term reliability.
• Make pragmatic technical decisions and influence the architectural direction and technical roadmap.
• Champion and apply engineering best practices, mentoring the team in clean code, testing, and observability.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to deliver product features from technical groundwork.
• Maintain high quality and craftsmanship in daily work, delivering robust solutions with strong attention to detail.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building backend systems in object-oriented languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala.
• Experience in payments or similarly complex, high-volume, transactional domains with production environment reliability focus.
• Proficiency in designing and building distributed systems with RESTful and event-driven (e.g., Kafka) architectures, emphasizing fault tolerance and observability.
• Strong ownership from design to deployment and production support, comfortable shipping and monitoring code.
• Solid experience with relational databases and query optimization.
• Familiarity with AWS-based infrastructure.
• Thrives in product-led, agile environments with a collaborative mindset.
• Willingness to be a technical leader who mentors and raises quality standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Private healthcare, 2 Wellness Days, employee assistance program, and a free online GP service.
• Competitive compensation, Employee Share Purchase Scheme, Pension, Life Assurance, and Income Protection.
• Bike to work scheme and tax saver transport tickets.
• 2 weeks leave for Fertility Treatment, Pregnancy Loss, and Menopause.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits.
• Extensive learning and development opportunities, including online resources and development programs.
• 3 moving days for Phorest employees.
• Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance.