Senior Backend Software Engineer

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Backend) (Ai): Building backend systems that power authentication, authorization, and emerging agentic and non-human identity use cases with an accent on security, latency, and developer experience. Focus on translating customer needs into technical plans, delivering high-impact features, and evolving identity platform for hirify.global’s scale.

Location: Remote (US). This role will be remote, but is not eligible to be hired in San Francisco, CA, Oakland, CA, San Jose, CA, or the surrounding areas.

Salary: $141,520 - 176,900 (Based in Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont or Washington D.C.), $149,840 - 187,300 (Based in New York, New Jersey, Washington State, or California (outside of the San Francisco Bay area)), $166,400 - 208,000 (Based in the San Francisco Bay area, California)

Company

hirify.global shapes the future of communications, delivering innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empowering millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences.

What you will do

• Build and own backend product capabilities for Stytch’s identity platform on hirify.global.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable distributed services, optimizing for security, latency, and developer experience.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction, translate customer needs into technical plans, and deliver high-impact roadmap features.
• Collaborate across hirify.global and Stytch teams to align on architecture, integrate platform capabilities, and unblock cross-team initiatives.
• Improve production quality and resilience through strong observability, incident response and remediation.
• Mentor and support other engineers through pairing, feedback, and knowledge-sharing, helping raise the team’s technical bar and culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in designing, building and operating high-scale, mission critical cloud based production systems.
• Familiarity with a production-grade code base in a modern programming language, applying best practice coding standards and writing high quality code.
• Extensive experience with RESTful API design and development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related industry experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Schedule: ability to work non-standard, on-call rotation weekend and holiday hours.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Go, Kubernetes, and DynamoDB
• Experience building developer tools and/or internal platforms that improve velocity and reliability.
• Experience designing and building highly reliable back end systems
• Builder at heart.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more.
• Opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other.
• Eligible to participate in hirify.global’s equity plan and corporate bonus plan.
• All roles are generally eligible for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.