Staff Software Engineer (Rails/Go)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Rails/Go): Designing, building, and maintaining high-throughput APIs and services for a settlement platform with an accent on architectural direction, operational safety, and end-to-end money movement. Focus on solving complex concurrency challenges, ensuring system reliability, and driving adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $210,000 – $255,000

Company

hirify.global builds innovative technology that transforms the way businesses and their customers experience payments, offering an industry-leading platform for managing the entire payment experience.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale APIs, services, and workflows for accurate money movement and settlement processes.
• Own the architectural direction for the settlement domain, producing documentation and driving alignment across teams.
• Ensure correctness, operability, and security by reviewing and approving technical designs and architecture decision records.
• Drive end-to-end execution of large, ambiguous initiatives, managing risk and aligning stakeholders.
• Enhance operational safety and correctness across settlement flows, implementing idempotency and reconciliation guarantees.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to shape roadmaps and strategy, translating business needs into durable platform capabilities.
• Raise engineering standards and drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating backend systems with Staff-level scope.
• Proven ability to own critical production workflows end-to-end (design, delivery, on-call/ops).
• Strong system design fundamentals including reliability, consistency, data modeling, and API/service boundaries.
• Demonstrated ownership of architectural direction for a complex domain, including writing ADRs/tech specs.
• Ability to move between high-level architecture and hands-on coding, coupled with strong judgment in cross-functional environments.
• Deep domain expertise in financial systems to connect technical decisions to client/business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Payments/fintech experience (or other regulated/high-integrity domains).
• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails in large systems and/or significant experience building Go services at scale.
• Experience with AWS + Kubernetes or similar service operations and observability practices.
• Track record decomposing or evolving a monolith while keeping critical workflows stable.
• Experience building reconciliation/settlement, ledger-adjacent systems, or financial reporting pipelines.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options with standard startup vesting (1 year cliff, 4 years total).
• Monthly communication expense stipend ($50) and WFH setup stipend ($250).
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment (monitor up to $400, keyboard/mouse up to $200).
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees).
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance, paid parental bonding leave, sick leave, jury duty, and bereavement.
• 401k plan and Flexible Time Off (typically 3-4 weeks per year), plus Volunteer Time Off and 13 scheduled holidays.
• Team values of togetherness, doing the right thing, delivering real results, respect, transparency, and flexibility.