Senior Software Engineer (API Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (API Platform): Building platform services and tooling that support API design, documentation, discovery, observability and lifecycle management with an accent on performance, scalability, reliability and distributed systems concerns. Focus on defining and rolling out conventions for resource modeling, versioning, error handling and other core API design concerns.

Location: Poland, work in Central European Time.

Compensation: 6,500 - 8,000 USD per month (B2B)

Company

hirify.global helps home service professionals streamline every aspect of their business with tools for scheduling, dispatching, and payments.

What you will do

• Design and build platform services and tooling that support API design, documentation, discovery, observability and lifecycle management.
• Help define and roll out conventions for resource modeling, versioning, error handling and other core API design concerns.
• Implement and improve cross-cutting capabilities such as API monitoring, logging, rate limiting, caching and throttling.
• Participate in system design and architectural discussions focused on performance, scalability, reliability and distributed systems concerns.
• Mentor other engineers in API design, distributed systems, and platform thinking, and help evangelize best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience with at least one modern server-side stack (e.g., Ruby/Rails, Python, Java, Kotlin, Node, etc.).
• Proven track record of designing and implementing APIs (REST and/or gRPC), including versioning and handling breaking changes.
• Hands-on experience with production observability and reliability.
• Practical knowledge of caching, rate limiting, and performance tuning for networked services.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.
• This position requires fluency in both Polish and English

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby / Rails.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management, event-driven architectures, MySQL at scale, or previous work on an internal platform or infrastructure team.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off and flexible work hours.
• 100% remote work.
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company.
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas.