Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Designing and evolving services that power core banking products, processing thousands of financial transactions daily with an accent on scalability, resilience, and security. Focus on architectural decisions, influencing cross-team initiatives, and owning complex, high-impact work from concept through to production.

Location: Hybrid

Company

hirify.global is growing across several of its product-engineering tribes, with opportunities in Current Accounts, Lending, Credit Cards and Product Enablement.

What you will do

• Owning complex initiatives end to end, from idea to measurable outcome
• Designing scalable backend systems that stand up to real-world scale and complexity
• Making architectural decisions that balance immediate delivery with long-term sustainability
• Bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous problems
• Influencing prioritisation and trade-offs across teams
• Raising the bar for engineering quality, reliability and accountability

Requirements

• A track record of delivering high-impact, complex systems in production environments
• Strong systems thinking and architectural judgement
• The ability to navigate ambiguity and turn complexity into clear, actionable plans
• Confidence making data-informed technical decisions with long-term consequences in mind
• Experience influencing beyond your immediate team
• A deep customer focus and a bias toward measurable outcomes

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring others and amplifying team impact
• Ownership beyond your own output

Culture & Benefits

• Work on products used by millions of customers
• Build systems where reliability truly matters
• Have real influence over technical direction
• Join a team recognised as one of the UK’s Most Loved Workplaces
• Be part of a bank that is still growing, still ambitious and still challenging the industry