Retirement Financial Infrastructure Staff Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Retirement Financial Infrastructure Staff Engineer (Fintech): Building and owning the systems for money and asset movement through hirify.global Retirement with an accent on backend services, APIs, and financial integrations. Focus on payments, settlements, and supporting critical workflows like payroll integration, KYB/KYC, and 401k loans.

Location: Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY. Employees based in these locations are expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week.

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 ship services and APIs for money movement and financial integrations.
• Work on payments, settlements, reconciliation, and corrections involving real customer funds.
• Build and support critical workflows like payroll integration, KYB/KYC, 401k loans, billing and invoicing, and IRA.
• Partner with product, compliance, and operations to scope work and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Debug production issues and improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate with shared systems and platforms.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production products or platforms.
• Strong experience with services, APIs, and data-heavy workflows.
• Experience working on financial systems, payments, or other high-correctness domains (or the ability to ramp quickly).
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, including production support and operational work.
• Experience working closely with PMs and cross-functional partners to deliver scoped work.
• Clear communicator and collaborative teammate.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails (or a comparable backend framework).

Nice to have

• Experience leveraging AI tools or systems to accelerate development, improve testing, and deliver new product capabilities.
• Curiosity and experimentation with emerging AI frameworks, applying and sharing best practices to evaluate and scale AI use safely across teams.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City.
• 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).
• When approved to work from a location other than a hirify.global office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.