Senior Backend Engineer (AdTech)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (AdTech): Designing and maintaining backend services powering core products and platforms with an accent on scalability and resilience. Focus on improving performance, reliability, and maintainability through architecture decisions.

Location: Remote

Salary: $140,000 - $160,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is a global commerce company providing tools and services to help game developers fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms.
• Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka.
• Build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Drive architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Own your code in production, monitor, debug, and continuously improve service performance and reliability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Go or a similar language.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-based communication.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive resolution.

Nice to have

• Background in gaming, payments, or commerce systems.
• Experience in adtech or offer monetization platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms.
• Experience with Redis or other in-memory data stores.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Culture & Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
• Consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories.
• Use of AI tools to support parts of the hiring process (without replacing human judgment).