Lead Backend Engineer (Digital Marketing Technology)

TL;DR

Lead Backend Engineer (Digital Marketing Technology): Innovating hirify.global’s global digital experiences, leveraging best-in-class technology to pioneer a next-gen stack for content management, classification, and A/B testing. With an accent on defining and overseeing architecture, design, implementation, and testing strategies, ensuring technical excellence, long-term scalability, and high-quality product delivery. Focus on building breakthrough features, ensuring platform stability and scalability, driving design and architecture of complex technical solutions, innovating Agile and DevOps, and evaluating cutting-edge tools.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, or Palo Alto, USA

Company

hirify.global’s Digital Marketing Technology group is responsible for the innovation of the company's global digital experiences, leveraging best-in-class technology and systems.

What you will do

• Establish the technical vision and unlock best-in-class capabilities in the marketing technology ecosystem.
• Serve as the technical leader, providing solution guidance and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Proactively partner with Product and Engineering leadership to define and champion product roadmaps.
• Drive the design and architecture of complex, high-impact technical solutions.
• Design, build, test, and deliver scalable, extensible, maintainable, and observable services.
• Innovate Agile and DevOps, driving continuous improvement with a focus on process, controls, scalability, and maturity.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale production services.
• Proficient in modern software architectural principles and patterns for Domain-driven design.
• Experience developing backend software with Typescript and Node.js.
• Experience in building scalable applications based on microservice architecture in public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Graph databases), Web Services (REST, GraphQL), and Data streams (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Experience with web security, including JWT lifecycle management, CORS, CSP, and XSS prevention.
• Experience in test-driven development and testing frameworks like Jest, Playwright.
• Experience in Service orchestration using tools like Terraform.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• A related technical degree is required.

Culture & Benefits

• Cultivate and thrive in a culture of ownership, high-quality delivery, and continuous innovation.
• Elevate the overall technical strength of the engineering organization by actively coaching, mentoring, and setting a high bar for technical excellence.
• Work with a group of world-class engineers to build breakthrough features.