Lead Software Engineer

TL;DR

Lead Software Engineer: Architecting modern, scalable software across AWS & Azure infrastructure, backend, web frontend, and mobile with an accent on technical leadership and delihirify.global skills. Focus on setting the bar for engineering excellence through high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code.

Location: Remote (US). To qualify for this role, you must reside in the US and be a US Citizen.

Salary: USD $175,000–$185,000 per year, commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global is a fully distributed technology firm led by expert problem-solvers who create efficient, scalable solutions that move commercial, industrial, and consumer products from pilot to production in record time.

What you will do

• Serve as the key technical architect across multiple client engagements, ensuring technical strategy aligns with business goals and measurable outcomes.
• Lead architecture design across frontend, backend, and cloud layers, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Contribute directly to implementation — writing production-grade code that demonstrates the standard of craftsmanship expected at hirify.global.
• Collaborate across disciplines (Hardware, Data Science, and Design) to deliver end-to-end connected and intelligent product ecosystems.
• Establish standards for coding, CI/CD, testing, and deployment that enable predictable, high-quality delihirify.global.
• Identify and mitigate architectural or delihirify.global risks early through proactive technical leadership.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role overseeing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Proven success delivering full-stack systems from concept to production.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain public facing production systems at scale.
• Strong frontend experience in React, Vite, TypeScript, REST API, WebSockets.
• Strong mobile experience in React-Native, Native iOS and Android, Expo, EAS, Kotlin, Tailwind.
• Primary residence in the continental US

Nice to have

• AWS experience in Lambda, ECS, Fargate, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS and SQS.
• Experience working with Kubernetes deployments.
• Backend knowledge of Java, Dropwizard, Node.js, Python, FastAPI, and Django.
• Skilled in relational and non-relational data modeling.
• Proficient in Docker, GitHub Actions and Terraform or Pulumi.

Culture & Benefits

• We collaborate closely, move fast, and stay grounded in results.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• $200/mo cell/internet stipend.
• $600/yr home office equipment stipend.
• Paid parental leave (95th percentile in the U.S.).
• Continuing education stipend ($2,500/yr after one year).