Senior Staff Software Engineer (Web3)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Web3): Building and evolving the foundational infrastructure that powers development at scale with an accent on removing friction, solving systemic platform challenges. Focus on performance and scale, proactively identifying bottlenecks, improving observability and tracing.

Location: Remote (United Kingdom; Brazil; Canada; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Germany; Ireland; Lithuania; Mexico; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Spain; Switzerland)

Company

hirify.global is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto.

What you will do

• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, SRE, and Security teams to ensure hirify.global's platform is reliable, secure, and scalable.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, influencing best practices in system design, testing, and performance optimization.
• Take ownership of system-wide architectural initiatives and shape long-term technical strategy.
• Contribute to the team’s incident response, root cause analysis, and system hardening efforts.
• Champion continuous improvement by introducing new tools, techniques, and technologies that raise the bar for backend engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing high-performance backend systems, preferably in finance, trading, or distributed environments.
• Deep expertise in at least one systems language (C++, Go, or Rust) and solid scripting knowledge in Python.
• Strong familiarity with Linux systems, including low-level debugging, concurrency, and profiling.
• Experience building and optimizing low-latency, high-throughput services handling large-scale transaction volumes.
• Demonstrated ability to make data-driven architectural decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Experience with distributed systems, messaging queues, and inter-service communication protocols (gRPC, REST, etc.)

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cryptocurrency markets, DeFi, and blockchain protocols is a major plus
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote company with hirify.globalites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages.
• Industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space.
• Committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support.