Lead Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Lead Backend Engineer: Building scalable backend services to drive global products with an accent on clarity, ownership, and design. Focus on solving complex problems, ensuring high availability, and mentoring other engineers.

Location: This is a hybrid role that will be based in San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA and requires an in-office presence three days per week (Tuesday - Thursday).

Salary: $168,300 - $207,900

Company

hirify.global builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences.

What you will do

• Architect and build scalable backend services that handle millions of transactions reliably.
• Own the full development lifecycle from high-level design to deployment and debugging.
• Write clean, modular, and testable code optimized for both readability and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Frontend, SRE) to deliver customer value fast.
• Lead code reviews, mentor 2–3 engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in production and drive long-term stability improvements.

Requirements

• 6 to 8 years of experience building and scaling backend systems in fast-paced product teams.
• Expertise in selecting optimal data structures and developing efficient, optimized code including time/space complexity trade-offs.
• Deep knowledge of REST APIs.
• Strong command of OOP principles, designing extensible code, and applying SOLID principles.
• Proven ability to design scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant end-to-end systems, including APIs, schema, and data models.
• Exposure to RDBMS, caching strategies, distributed queues, and microservices.

Culture & Benefits

• Foster an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion.
• Welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities.
• Committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment.
• Multiple options for dental, medical, vision, disability and life insurances.
• Equity + ESPP, flexible PTO, flexible spending, commuter benefits and wellness benefits are also offered.
• Adoption and parental leave benefits.