Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Online Stores

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer (Online Stores): Leading technical strategy, architecture, and implementation for online stores with an accent on mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams. Focus on aligning technical investments with business priorities, driving engineering excellence, and addressing complex engineering challenges.

Location: Hybrid role working from our NYC office 3 days per week.

Salary: $185,500 - $260,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online.

What you will do

• Be the architect for a major area of our business, solving large-scale problems and influencing architecture.
• Drive best practices for engineering excellence and technical leadership, influence design reviews.
• Provide guidance to the engineering team to architect solutions at scale.
• Multiply your effectiveness through influence by growing our experienced team of Software Engineers.
• Tie technical investments to business priorities, lead architecture discussions and design reviews.
• Contribute directly to projects that require more senior technical expertise.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing web-based production systems and building large-scale software and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of web application development.
• Experience building and implementing long-term technical strategy.
• Ability to create effective designs to solve complex problems and lead teams to implement them.
• Significant experience using multiple programming languages (especially Java).
• Effective communication skills with ability to give impactful feedback to colleagues.

Culture & Benefits

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Retirement benefits with employer match.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and family care leave.
• Dog-friendly workplace with free lunch and snacks.