Senior Software Engineer (Safety Experience)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Safety Experience): Leading the development of user‑facing products that protect hirify.global's users with an accent on preventing harmful activities and ensuring regulatory compliance. Focus on designing, building, and deploying robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.

Location: Candidates must reside in or be willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties). Relocation assistance may be available.

Salary: $196,000 to $220,500 + equity + benefits

Company

hirify.global plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming as a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.

What you will do

• Lead development of highly‑visible, user‑facing products that protect hirify.global's users.
• Design, build, and deploy robust production APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to launch safety features at scale.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Product, Design, Policy, Data Science, ML, Legal, and T&S Operations to create impactful solutions.
• Iterate on in-house tooling to supercharge Trust & Safety workflows.
• Respond rapidly to the ever‑evolving abuse and compliance landscape.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience writing Python and utilizing back-end API frameworks (Flask, Django).
• 5+ years experience developing front-end interfaces with JavaScript (React, TypeScript) for both web and mobile platforms.
• Familiarity with databases such as Cassandra, Postgres, and ScyllaDB.
• Demonstrated success leading end‑to‑end delivery of complex projects.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, and test complex systems in a live, production environment.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work well with cross-functional partners, designers, and other engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience in the Safety or Anti‑Abuse domain.
• Experience analyzing and visualizing data using Datadog or Mode.
• Familiarity with real‑time streaming systems like Kafka or Pub-Sub.
• Ability to contribute to offline analytics jobs and processes.
• Experience building and operating mobile‑client features on iOS and Android.
• Exposure to lower‑level languages such as Go, Rust, and Elixir.
• A strong moral compass that drives you to protect users and do the right thing.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
• Multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests.