Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer, Product Engineer: Architecting, building, and testing hirify.global's customer-facing product suite spanning payroll, benefits, and HR with an accent on backend APIs and frontend development. Focus on scaling large Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications, solving complex engineering problems, and mentoring other engineers.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, Denver, or New York; Remote from Seattle, Los Angeles (US), or Toronto (Canada). Travel to hirify.global's Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.

Salary: $198,000–$247,000/year (USD) for San Francisco, New York & Seattle; $163,000–$204,000/year (USD) for Denver & most remote US locations; $175,000–$219,000/year (CAD) in Canada.

Company

hirify.global is a product company focused on growing the small business economy by providing payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR solutions to over 400,000 small businesses.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and test hirify.global’s product suite across Payroll, Benefits, HR, Time, and Tax Credits.
• Oversee projects end-to-end, influencing feature specs, building backend APIs, and writing frontend code.
• Mentor other engineers to solve complex technical problems at scale within complex domains.
• Scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and Javascript/React applications in the world.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Design to understand customer pain points and launch solutions daily.
• Build a product that customers genuinely love.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience owning multi-quarter projects that solve complex engineering problems and make measurable customer impact at scale.
• Ability to effectively communicate across engineering teams and with business stakeholders.
• Experience in, or interest working in, Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with large-scale refactors, performance, and reliability issues.
• Ability to build well-structured, maintainable, well-documented code.

Nice to have

• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities.
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Stock equity is an additional part of compensation.
• Physical offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City with hybrid expectations (2-3 days/week in office) for employees based in those locations.
• Remote work is available for Seattle, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
• Committed to being an equal opportunity employer.