Backend Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Fintech): Building a platform for AI-powered agents that automate complex workflows in financial services with an accent on agent execution runtime, tool orchestration, and platform infrastructure. Focus on improving how agents run, how they connect to external tools, and how they behave when something goes wrong.

Location: Hybrid role based in Berlin, Iasi, or London. We collaborate in person regularly and don't offer remote-only for this position.

Salary: Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.

Company

hirify.global helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI by providing tools to automate complex decisions with full visibility and control.

What you will do

• Build and ship new product features for hirify.global’s AI agent platform, from idea to production.
• Own backend work end-to-end: collaborate on scope, implement, test, release, and iterate based on real usage.
• Help make agent workflows reliable and easy to use by improving how agents run and connect to external tools.
• Work closely with Product and Design, using insights from dogfooding and customer feedback to shape what we build next.
• Raise the quality bar by improving maintainability, clarity, and performance as the platform grows.

Requirements

• Hybrid role based in Berlin. We collaborate in person regularly and don't offer remote-only for this position.
• Fluent English required.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: you can build clean APIs, debug production issues, optimize database queries, and know when to refactor vs. ship.
• Comfortable operating systems in production and participating in incident response as part of a team rotation.
• Production experience with Python: you've shipped APIs using FastAPI, Flask, or Django and understand async patterns, error handling, database transactions, and performance optimization.
• Proficient in REST API design and can create endpoints that scale and maintain over time.
• Prior industry experience with public cloud providers (preferably AWS).

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, Pydantic, or SQLAlchemy.
• Familiarity with LLM application development, agent frameworks, or building platform infrastructure and developer tools.
• Experience with distributed systems, async task processing, observability tooling (tracing, metrics, logging), or previous on-call experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow.
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth.
• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
• Receive a new Apple MacBook Pro, as well as meaningful home office set-up.