Staff Backend Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Software Engineer (Fintech): Architecting foundational patterns for a multi-tenant travel commerce engine, focusing on scalable and resilient systems, booking flows, search orchestration, and checkout journeys. Focus on building modular systems with configuration over customization and leading the evolution of Scala-based distributed systems towards global scale with robust and maintainable patterns.

Location: Remote from Colombia (Bogotá, Cali, Medellin)

Company

hirify.global is a travel platform that powers hirify.global’s mobile app, website and B2B business (HTS) by leveraging data, machine learning, and fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility, and savings to travelers globally.

What you will do

• Architect the foundational patterns for booking flows, checkout journeys, and multi-tenant configurations.
• Define the "North Star" for our Scala-based distributed systems, ensuring our move toward global scale is met with robust, maintainable patterns.
• Lead the evolution of our platform to support "configuration over customization," allowing partners to launch world-class experiences with zero-touch engineering.
• Lead the design, build, and operate API and full-stack solutions that serve as the "source of truth" for Stays and Packages across all HTS partners.
• Proactively explore and resolve engineering improvements for the team and the product—identifying bottlenecks in the codebase or infrastructure that hinder scale.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the product team, other hirify.global teams, and external partner teams to ensure foundational logic is robust and extensible.

Requirements

• Deep experience with distributed system development in Scala.
• Prioritize configuration over customization, building modular systems that support N partners with minimal manual intervention.
• Experience with API and full-stack solutions.
• Strong product thinking: your conception of quality is anchored in the customer.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• A natural drive to fearlessly deep dive into an unknown, complex code base to untangle logic and implement elegant abstractions.

Culture & Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.