Senior Software Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Owning critical infrastructure components that ingest, enrich, and route billions of data points — ensuring performance, reliability, and horizontal scalability. Focus on designing fault-tolerant, observable, and cost-efficient systems that support distributed workloads.

Location: 100% remote from anywhere in the world

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing startup in Europe that transforms the future of data workflows by enabling seamless, large-scale data extraction from the web.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the job processing architecture to handle millions of concurrent async tasks reliably.
• Architect pipelines that support retry strategies, dynamic task routing, prioritization, rate limiting, and idempotency at scale.
• Improve the resilience and self-healing capacity of async workflows.
• Define SLAs and reliability goals for job processing and scheduling systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and contribute to elevating engineering standards and architecture reviews.

Requirements

• Have 6+ years of backend and infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 2 years working on large-scale async job systems, task queues, or pipelines.
• Have deep expertise in queueing systems like Celery, Sidekiq, BullMQ, SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Google Pub/Sub.
• Have designed or operated distributed schedulers (e.g., Airflow, Temporal, Argo, custom systems).
• Know how to make asynchronous systems idempotent, traceable, and fault-tolerant.
• Communicate clearly, document thoroughly, and guide complex decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• Have experience with multi-cloud deployment strategies.
• Have previously built your own workflow engine, job scheduler, or orchestration system.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Opportunity to contribute significantly and have ownership over your role.
• Work with a CEO who values world-class talent and fosters a culture of trust and respect.
• Focus on culture ensures a positive and enjoyable work environment.