Staff Software Engineer (Payroll Platform)

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Payroll Platform): Building backend product infrastructure that powers payroll experiences across hirify.global with an accent on designing and evolving internal APIs and services. Focus on system health, correctness, scalability, and long-term evolution.

Location: Employees based in Denver, San Francisco, or New York City are expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week. Travel to hirify.global’s Denver office for onboarding is required for this position.

Salary: $163,000/yr to $204,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $197,000/yr to $247,000/yr for San Francisco, Seattle & New York.

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to grow the small business economy by handling payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR for over 400,000 small businesses across the country.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that support core payroll workflows.
• Take responsibility for system health, correctness, scalability, and long-term evolution within a primary domain of the Payroll Platform.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams as a technical partner to understand their needs and co-design solutions.
• Author and drive architecture and design documents, contributing to technical direction.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and observability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Compliance, and Operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development.
• Experience building and scaling internal platforms, shared services, or foundational APIs.
• Proven ability to work independently on ambiguous problems.
• Strong system design skills, including experience with performance optimization, scalability, and reliability.
• Actively uses AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work.
• Experience collaborating across teams.
• Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages; experience with Ruby is strongly preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
• hirify.global has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
• When approved to work from a location other than a hirify.global office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
• hirify.global is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.