Senior Software Engineer (Messaging Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Messaging Platform): Designing and building scalable, fault-tolerant systems for a high-throughput messaging and personalization platform with an accent on handling billions of messages per week and proactively anticipating future growth. Focus on evolving streaming architecture, solving complex scalability challenges, and improving system observability and resiliency.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $150,000 - $205,000 annually + equity + benefits

Company

hirify.global is an AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization, unifying SMS, RCS, email, and push notifications to deliver bespoke experiences for over 8,000 customers.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant systems that reliably deliver billions of messages weekly across SMS/RCS, email, and push channels.
• Anticipate future needs of the messaging platform and proactively design solutions that support growth and evolving compliance.
• Serve as a technical connector across engineering, product, infrastructure, and partner teams.
• Lead and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives, including platform reliability and infrastructure modernization.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, reinforcing best practices around system design, testing, and production readiness.
• Improve system observability, performance, and resiliency to reduce operational risk.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on distributed systems and high-throughput services.
• Experience building and operating backend systems in Java, Python, or Go, with a strong grasp of object-oriented design, APIs, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of messaging or event-driven architectures, including queues, streams, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Proven track record of architecting systems at scale, maintaining secure and reliable production services, and setting a high bar for quality.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating business goals into clear technical plans.
• Motivated by large, complex problems and continuously improving foundational systems.

Nice to have

• Front End development (Typescript/React) skills to support tooling/observability.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive perks and benefits, including health & wellness and equity.
• Company values: Default to Action, Be One Unstoppable Team, Champion the Customer, Act Like an Owner.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities for all employees.
• Reasonable accommodations provided for candidates with disabilities during the application process.