Staff Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Developer Experience): Improving how developers build on top of hirify.global's payroll platform with an accent on API design, tooling, and workflows. Focus on identifying high-leverage opportunities, engaging with external developers, and setting best practices for reliability and observability in developer-facing systems.

Location: Hybrid (San Francisco, Denver, New York City) or Remote (most US locations)

Salary: $190,000–$220,000 /yr for Denver & most remote locations, and $220,000–$260,000 /yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York

Company

hirify.global is a product company on a mission to grow the small business economy by providing payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR solutions.

What you will do

• Identify high-leverage opportunities to improve developer experience across APIs, tooling, documentation, and workflows.
• Partner closely with internal product, solution architect, and engineering teams to define solutions for reducing friction when integrating with Embedded Payroll.
• Engage directly with external developers to understand pain points, validate solutions, and contribute to platform direction.
• Design and evolve APIs, abstractions, and interfaces with a focus on clarity, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
• Build and maintain developer-facing tools, libraries, and internal frameworks that improve velocity and reliability.
• Lead by example through hands-on development, shipping clean, tested, and well-designed code.
• Set and promote best practices for reliability, observability, and backwards compatibility in developer-facing systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong backend engineering expertise with deep experience working in large, production systems.
• Experience designing APIs, platforms, or tools with developers as your primary customer, with care for usability, documentation, and error handling.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing.
• Ability to think in terms of business priorities and orient your team around the right technical goals.
• Experience applying AI tools (LLMs, Cursor, Copilot, Agents) to accelerate development, improve code quality, and deliver scalable developer-facing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Support for more than 400,000 small businesses across the country.
• Hybrid work model in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City requiring office attendance approximately 2-3 days per week.
• Remote work option available for most US locations outside of major office hubs.
• Commitment to being an equal opportunity employer and building a diverse workplace.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.