Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Java/Kotlin): Building and optimizing high-load backend services and integrations for a product leveraging LLMs and large-scale data processing, with an accent on enterprise system integrations, data scraping, and deriving insights at scale. Focus on microservices architecture, solving complex data processing challenges, and ensuring system reliability for sales intelligence.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $200,000–$300,000 USD + Equity

Company

hirify.global is an early-stage startup building a product to provide better intelligence for companies selling into the public sector.

What you will do

• Build integrations into enterprise systems.
• Contribute to systems leveraging LLMs for sales insights at scale.
• Develop solutions for scraping, processing, and deriving insights from millions of public documents.
• Work in all parts of the backend in an early-stage team.

Requirements

• 6+ years of Enterprise B2B SaaS or Big data processing experience in the JVM ecosystem.
• Experience with Java (preferably Kotlin).
• Experience working in small teams and startups.
• English: B2

Nice to have

• Experience with Kotlin, GCP, Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Firebase, Python.
• Experience with Natural Language Generation, Enterprise API integrations, Prompt Engineering, Large Scale Web Scraping & Parsing.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and early-stage equity.
• Unlimited PTO and regular offsites (NYC + global locations).
• Ownership and autonomy to innovate alongside the team.
• Complimentary gym membership (Chelsea Piers Fitness) and company-provided lunch in office (NYC presence implied).

Hiring process

• CV review and initial 30-minute phone interview.
• Programming challenge (LeetCode and SQL).
• Three main interviews: system design, live coding (Java/Kotlin), product thinking/past work.
• Goal: finish process within one week via Google Meet.