Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Agents

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Agents (Backend Systems): Build and evolve scalable backend systems that power growth initiatives across the platform with an accent on experimentation, feature rollouts, and data-driven iteration. Focus on complex engineering projects end-to-end, from design through deployment and iteration, upholding high standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.

Location: This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of being in our Toronto office three days per week.

Salary: CA$99.8K - CA$271.2K

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to close the justice gap using technology and AI, empowering personal injury lawyers and victims to get the justice they deserve.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and optimize robust backend systems that support growth-focused initiatives, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to interpret growth and experimentation requirements and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Lead the development of backend frameworks, libraries, and systems that enable experimentation, controlled rollouts, and measurable business impact.
• Work with engineers on challenging backend problems, including data processing, experimentation frameworks, infrastructure, and integrations with large-scale AI/ML systems.
• Help build and reinforce the engineering culture in Toronto by sharing best practices, mentoring teammates, and maintaining a high bar for quality.
• Own projects from inception through production deployment, ensuring alignment with standards for performance, scalability, reliability, and security.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in backend engineering with a strong understanding of distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or C++, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code.
• Proven experience building scalable, reliable backend systems and APIs in high-performance environments.
• Experience thriving in startup or high-growth environments.
• Strong grasp of modern engineering practices, including test-driven development, code reviews, and deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.

Nice to have

• Experience on growth-focused or experimentation-driven teams.
• Exposure to AI/ML systems, particularly generative AI or data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, analytics platforms, or experimentation tooling.
• Prior experience scaling backend systems in rapidly growing startups.

Culture & Benefits

• Choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Flexible paid time off, sick leave, short-term and long-term disability.
• A home office stipend.
• 401(k) for US-based employees and RRSP for Canada-based employees.
• Paid parental leave.
• A local in-person meet-up program.