Staff Software Engineer, Quality & Product Integrity

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer, Quality & Product Integrity: Building and optimizing systems to scale product quality effectively across various markets and languages, with an accent on reducing the cost of quality and leveraging AI for proactive solutions. Focus on leading architectural discussions, strengthening platform reliability, and improving developer experience through better systems and tooling.

Location: Remote (UK) or London/Cardiff office, with ad hoc meetings in London. Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to the UK are available.

Salary: £115,000–£150,000 base salary

Company

hirify.global is a product company building and optimizing a wide range of personal and business banking solutions for its customers in the UK and beyond.

What you will do

• Hands-on technical work to solve deep technical challenges in software engineering and system building.
• Drive behavioural changes and accountability across hirify.global using data, influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Set technical and strategic direction across backend systems, data pipelines, mobile clients, CI/CD, release processes, and analytics.
• Strengthen the reliability surface between teams by building and enhancing tools, patterns, and guardrails.
• Lead architectural discussions for complex systems to ensure robust and optimal solutions.
• Proactively mentor and up-level engineers while fostering a culture of quality.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering foundations with significant experience designing, building, testing, and operating robust backend services using strongly-typed languages.
• Proven expertise in testing and quality at scale, including E2E testing, reliability practices, and signal-driven quality approaches.
• Experience designing or evolving platform tooling or shared systems used by many teams.
• Ability to influence technical direction without formal authority, using data and strong communication.
• Comfort working across ambiguity and evolving problem spaces, balancing pragmatism with long-term impact.
• Track record of improving developer experience and delivery outcomes through better systems, tooling, or practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours, trusting you to work enough hours to do your job well.
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses, and conferences.
• Emphasis on diversity and inclusion, fostering an inclusive environment for all.
• Opportunities to contribute to open source software and participate in knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Competitive base salary plus stock options.