Senior Backend Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer: Designing and building real-time engagement services and APIs that are fast, reliable, and scalable with an accent on solving high-throughput, low-latency challenges. Focus on crafting APIs used by some of the largest mobile apps in the world, identifying and resolving systemic bottlenecks.

Location: Remote

Company

hirify.global is known for its massive backend production, producing valuable insights from millions of incoming events, crunching user data, serving requests, and communicating at massive scale.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own real-time engagement services and APIs that are fast, reliable, and scalable.
• Tackle complex problems in real-time, high-throughput systems using modern cloud-native tooling such as CDNs, WAF, Web Handlers, and Kafka.
• Lead API design and implementation across systems with a strong focus on security, scale, performance, and reliability.
• Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks that span multiple services or cloud regions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to shape product direction and deliver customer value.
• Contribute to engineering excellence via code reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Proven expertise in designing, building, and scaling APIs for production environments.
• Strong knowledge of server-side technologies, HTTP/gRPC, inter-service communication, and performance tuning.
• Experience working with high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including CDN, WAF, and monitoring tools.
• B.Sc. in computer science or an equivalent.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, Clojure, or Java.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and tools like Kafka.
• Contributions to open-source projects, blog posts, or tech talks.

Culture & Benefits

• Global company operating from 25 offices across 19 countries, reflecting the human mosaic of the diverse and multicultural world.
• Ensure equal opportunities for all employees and promote the recruitment of diverse talents to global teams without consideration of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation.
• Value and encourage curiosity, diversity, and innovation from all employees, customers, and partners.