Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Improving the reliability, scalability, and personalization of Grow’s marketplace experience with an accent on backend services, data pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure. Focus on shaping the technical vision, taking end-to-end ownership, and ensuring the marketplace is observable, resilient, and continuously improving.

Location: Hybrid role with the expectation to work onsite from our NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub location three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and travel 2–3 times per year.

Salary: $200,000–$250,000 USD Annually.

Company

hirify.global is a three-sided marketplace powered by technology, empowering therapists, augmenting insurance payors, and serving patients in mental healthcare.

What you will do

• Own core marketplace systems end to end, including backend services, data inputs, and experimentation infrastructure.
• Improve the reliability, performance, and observability of the marketplace surface area.
• Build and evolve personalized marketplace experiences, including matching, search, and recommendation capabilities.
• Partner closely with Product and Data Science to translate marketplace goals into technical designs and execution plans.
• Diagnose and resolve data quality, performance, and correctness issues across systems.
• Enable safe, repeatable experimentation through robust A/B testing and analysis workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful ownership of production systems.
• Strong backend engineering experience (Python preferred), including service design and data modeling.
• Experience building or operating systems where reliability, data quality, and performance are critical.
• Highly data-driven mindset, comfortable with experimentation, measurement, and optimization.
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and bring structure and clarity.
• Product-minded approach with an understanding of how technical decisions impact user experience and business outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
• Up to 18 weeks paid parental leave and a new child stipend.
• 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
• Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals.
• Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
• Annual stipends for personal & professional growth, and no-cost access to therapy.