Senior Staff Software Engineer, Integrated Benefits Platform

TL;DR

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Integrated Benefits Platform): Owning and evolving key architectural areas within the Integrated Benefits platform ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and adaptable to future needs with an accent on system scalability, extensibility, and resilience. Focus on making and influencing architectural decisions within your domain, partnering across teams to align on technical direction, and guiding systems through complex transitions.

Location: Expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week if based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.

Salary: $223,000/yr to $265,000/yr for San Francisco & New York locations. Stock equity is additional.

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling the hard stuff—like payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR—so owners can focus on their craft and customers.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the architecture for key areas of the Integrated Benefits platform, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and adaptable to future needs.
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy within your domain, making informed tradeoffs that balance business goals, technical constraints, and long-term sustainability.
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for your area of the platform, aligning your work with team objectives and broader Benefits engineering priorities.
• Design and build shared platform capabilities that support Voluntary Life and Disability (vLiDi) products and broker integrations across the Benefits ecosystem.
• Identify cross-team dependencies and influence alignment on architectural patterns, standards, and best practices.
• Apply AI tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enable intelligent product capabilities, while evaluating emerging frameworks using clear success criteria.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and supporting production software systems.
• Significant experience designing and evolving complex backend systems, including deep experience in Ruby on Rails–based environments.
• Demonstrated ability to own architectural decisions within a product domain and influence technical direction across teams.
• Strong foundation in system design, data modeling, and working with complex, interconnected production systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and cross-functional partners without formal authority.
• Experience applying AI tools in production engineering workflows to improve development velocity, system quality, or product behavior.

Nice to have

• Experience working in highly regulated domains such as Benefits, Payroll, HR, Taxes, or Compliance.
• Experience designing or evolving large-scale integration platforms or service-oriented architectures.
• Prior work supporting external partners or third-party integrations.
• Experience contributing to internal developer platforms, shared tooling, or technical standards.
• Exposure to AI-driven systems beyond experimentation, including monitoring, evaluation, or governance.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global supports more than 400,000 small businesses across the country and is building a workplace that represents and celebrates the customers they serve.
• hirify.global has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
• hirify.global is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.