Lead/Principal Backend Software Engineer (SaaS)

TL;DR

Lead/Principal Backend Software Engineer (SaaS): Building new components in an evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency, focusing on high-quality, production-ready code for millions of users. Focus on design decisions based on performance, scalability, and future expansion, contributing to all phases of SDLC in a hybrid engineering model.

Location: Open to Flex (1-3 days/week in the office), or Office-Based (4-5 days/week in the office). Israel - Tel Aviv

Company

hirify.global has immediate opportunities for software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact.

What you will do

• Build new components in an ever-growing market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
• Develop high-quality, production-ready code for the cloud platform.
• Make design decisions based on performance, scalability, and future expansion.
• Contribute to all phases of SDLC, including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing.
• Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment.
• Code review, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance to the team (depending on seniority level).

Requirements

• 8+ years of development experience as a software engineer.
• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: Java, Python, Scala C#, Go, Node.JS and C++.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgress/Trino/redshift/Mongo).
• Experience with developing SAAS products over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Proven experience designing and developing distributed systems at scale.
• A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrate leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Technical expertise in Generative AI, particularly with RAG systems and Agentic workflows that use large language models.
• Experience with Big-Data/ML and S3
• Hands-on experience with Streaming technologies like Kafka
• Experience with Elastic Search
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
• Experience working in a high-paced and rapidly growing multinational organization

Culture & Benefits

• Wellbeing reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, and fertility benefits.
• Embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member.
• Autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions.