Backend Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Go): Building reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems for a global commerce company in the video game industry with an accent on maintainability and performance. Focus on refactoring legacy codebases, handling incident response, and improving observability.

Location: Montreal

Company

hirify.global is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry.

What you will do

• Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
• Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability and performance.
• Participate in architectural discussions and offer informed technical input.
• Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity.
• Drive production readiness by handling incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments.
• Strong experience working with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
• Proficient with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Helm.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong English communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics.

Nice to have

• Experience building scalable, secure Login-as-a-Service platforms.
• Deep knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, and session/token management.
• Strong grasp of social login, SSO, and federated identity.
• Designed multi-tenant identity systems with isolation and configurability.
• Delivered developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry.
• Make new resources available to creators.
• Operate as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world.