Technical Lead (Kv Stores & Caching)

TL;DR

Technical Lead (KV Stores & Caching): Driving the technical vision and execution for hirify.global's KV stores and caching infrastructure with an accent on mentoring engineers, shaping architectural decisions, and ensuring the team delivers high-impact solutions. Focus on defining the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure, evolving the KV store to support system-of-record use cases, and building a multi-tenant caching solution.

Location: US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an hirify.global office or attendance at offsites. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where hirify.global, Inc. has a registered entity.

Salary: $204,000—$255,000 USD

Company

hirify.global was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

What you will do

• Drive the technical vision and execution for KV stores and caching infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions.
• Define the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure.
• Evolve the KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases.
• Build a multi-tenant caching solution for hirify.global.
• Oversee frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
• Believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.