Senior Fullstack Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript/AWS): Building and optimizing core mobile app features and supporting backend systems for a dating and sexuality platform with an accent on scalable and distributed systems architecture, API design, and reliability. Focus on microservices, serverless functions, and ensuring robust performance for a large user base.

Location: Fully remote, work from anywhere

Salary: £70,000–£120,000 GBP per year

Company

hirify.global is an independent, experimental, and fully remote organisation reshaping the dialogue on dating and sexuality.

What you will do

• Work with a group of 6 engineers and 1 lead in a “Squad”, focusing on core pillars of the product such as onboarding, discover, chat, or Member care experiences.
• Build experiments, features, and fix issues aligned with the goals of your Squad.
• Support engineers within your Squad and the wider engineering team by sharing your knowledge of fullstack development.
• Align with peers across the business to ensure a fully supported user experience, including required “back office” tooling, security/compliance features, and data/analytics capabilities.
• Monitor and review current systems and services, and recommend and implement changes to address technical debt often.

Requirements

• You have worked on scalable (1M MAU) and distributed systems, focused on performance and reliability. You are familiar with microservices, event-driven architecture, message queues, and serverless functions.
• You know your way around a React Native mobile app, capable of debugging issues and contributing to features.
• You are comfortable with the suite of services offered by modern cloud providers such as AWS and understand your way around their consoles.
• You value collaboration and see code reviews as a chance to learn and improve together.
• You understand the importance of delivering value to our Members, not just shipping code.

Nice to have

• You enjoy sweating the details of both user experience and API design.
• You have actively worked on a live production app using GraphQL and DynamoDB.
• You have experience collaborating on product and design requirements with stakeholders.
• You are effective at collaborating in a remote and distributed work environment.
• You are experienced with distributed systems and have a keen eye for software architecture and its implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• A fully remote working situation.
• Home work station budget.
• Learning & development budget.
• On demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill.
• In-person meet ups.
• Baseline Freedom Salary of £60,000 GBP per year, with a transparent, honest, and equitable compensation system.

Hiring process

• Initial screening call with a recruiter.
• Second conversation directly with the hiring manager, focusing on past work experiences.
• Technical assessment.
• Third conversation to meet potential team members.
• Offer generally made within 2 weeks of the final call, with a flexible start date.