Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for a financial infrastructure platform with an accent on API design, balance management, and funds accessibility. Focus on designing and scaling systems to reliably handle billions of money movement requests, debugging critical production issues, and ensuring system reliability.

Location: Hybrid role, based in one of the company's offices (South San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, or New York) while collaborating in a distributed team.

Salary: $155,700–$285,600 USD

Company

hirify.global is a financial infrastructure platform enabling businesses to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new opportunities, with a mission to increase the GDP of the internet.

What you will do

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate effectively in a distributed and hybrid team, maintaining open communication and strong connections with colleagues.

Requirements

• 2-12+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships nor includes co-ops).
• Strong coding skills in any programming language.
• Strong collaboration skills, ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to peers’ success.
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale financial tracking systems.
• Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud-based services (e.g., gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS).

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to make an impact on managing money at a global scale.
• Work on critical tasks that contribute to increasing the GDP of the internet.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from Infrastructure to Product.