Lead Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Lead Software Engineer (Fintech): Driving the technical vision of the hirify.global Risk Platform, shaping next-generation real-time risk solutions, and ensuring high-quality delivery across teams with an accent on high‑quality, scalable, secure, and resilient system delivery. Focus on architectural decision‑making, mentoring engineers, and driving operational excellence.

Location: Hybrid work environment in Stockholm at least 3 days a week in-office, subject to change.

Company

hirify.global is a company providing trading, exchange technology, information and public company services across six continents.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, ensuring high‑quality, scalable, secure, and resilient system delivery.
• Own architectural decision‑making, balancing short‑term needs with long‑term maintainability while aligning with platform and security standards.
• Collaborate effectively across product, engineering, and operations teams, influencing decisions and communicating complex concepts clearly.
• Mentor and develop engineers through coaching, knowledge sharing, and high‑quality code reviews that promote continuous learning and engineering excellence.
• Drive operational excellence by ensuring reliability, performance, and continuous improvement, promoting automation and efficient development practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with 6+ years of professional engineering experience and strong Core Java expertise.
• Proven track record building high‑performing, scalable, and complex systems using modern engineering practices (CI/CD, Linux, Git).
• Hands‑on experience using AI‑assisted development tools for code generation, refactoring, reviews, test creation, debugging, performance analysis, and documentation support.
• Proven ability to responsibly apply AI tools within enterprise standards, ensuring security, correctness, and long‑term maintainability.
• Familiarity with evaluating, adopting, and integrating emerging development tools into established engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality.

Nice to have

• Hands‑on experience with backend and cloud technologies, including Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS deployment/monitoring, Spring, SQL, Docker, and Terraform.
• Additional programming versatility with Python and TypeScript/React for scripting, automation, or frontend collaboration.
• Background in capital markets, FinTech, or regulated industries.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary, annual bonus, and annual equity grant.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan offering discounted company shares.
• 32 paid vacation days, 6 additional days off per year, and extra vacation time based on tenure.
• Work from (almost) anywhere – up to 20 days/year.
• Health insurance and sports club membership reimbursement.
• 24/7 mental health support for you and your family.