Software Engineer (AI, Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (AI, Fintech): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for a brokerage platform, leveraging the latest AI models, with an accent on trading, market data, clearing, and accounting systems. Focus on designing and operating distributed systems for financial correctness, performance, and scalability.

Location: This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA office with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

Salary: $157,000 - $185,000 USD (Zone 1 - Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Bellevue, WA; Washington, DC)

Company

hirify.global is a financial company on a mission to democratize finance for all.

What you will do

• Learn and use advanced AI models to build platforms for financial systems.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services that support trading, market data, clearing, or brokerage infrastructure at scale.
• Write production-quality code with a focus on reliability, performance, and clear operational behavior in distributed systems.
• Partner with engineers across infrastructure and product teams to deliver stable platforms and well-defined APIs.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations to help keep critical systems healthy and resilient.
• Improve existing systems by addressing performance bottlenecks, scaling constraints, and operational risks.

Requirements

• Power user of frontier LLM models and passionate about leveraging AI to build everything at scale.
• Professional experience building and operating backend systems using Go, Java, Kotlin, or similar.
• Comfortable working with distributed real-time and data processing systems, data pipelines, and service-oriented architectures in production environments.
• Approach problems methodically, balancing correctness, performance, and maintainability.
• Communicate clearly in technical discussions and value thoughtful design and peer feedback.
• Motivated by working on systems where reliability and data accuracy directly affect customer trust.

Culture & Benefits

• Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career.
• Performance-driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
• Best-in-class benefits, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents, fertility, and mental health benefits.
• Highly flexible lifestyle wallet spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
• Generous time off to recharge, including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, and parental leave.
• Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.