Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building scalable systems and components for fund movements at hirify.global, focusing on long-term maintainability and stability. Focus on REST API design, correctness, and scalability requirements to support millions of customers.

Location: In-person participation is required throughout the year. Team and company-wide offsites are held multiple times annually.

Salary: $186,065—$218,900 USD

Company

hirify.global's mission is to increase economic freedom in the world by building the emerging onchain platform and the future global financial system.

What you will do

• Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability.
• Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements.
• Collaborate with frontend and data teams to fine tune REST APIs supporting millions of customers.
• Mentor junior developers on the team and lead project of large complexity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience with experience writing performant, large scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with writing highly concurrent systems and good intuition for REST API design.
• Proven experience working on large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team.
• Strong technical grasp with excellent judgment on task prioritizations.
• Ability to solve complex engineering problems that deliver results aligned with team objectives.
• Ability to mentor junior developers and lead the team technically on new initiatives and system improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience with growth experiments or A/B testing frameworks.
• Experience with Blockchain technology (such as Bitcoin, Ethereum etc..)
• Experience decomposing a large monolith into microservices.
• You’ve worked with Golang, Ruby, Docker, Rails, Postgres, MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• You’ve built financial, high reliability or security systems.
• Crypto-forward experience, including familiarity with onchain activity such as interacting with Ethereum addresses, using ENS, and engaging with dApps or blockchain-based services.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical Plan, Dental and Vision Plan with generous employee contributions.
• Health Savings Account with company contributions each pay period.
• Disability and Life Insurance.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Generous Time off/Leave Policy.
• The option of getting paid in digital currency.