Senior Backend Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Software Engineer (Fintech): Responsible for the platform that serves the entire hirify.global business, processing millions of transactions for users and companies around the globe with an accent on creating new payment mechanisms and improving/maintaining existing ones. Focus on scalability problems, system architecture, and code quality assurance.

Location: Brazil (Remote)

Company

hirify.global is revolutionizing workplace wellness by connecting employees worldwide to partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep.

What you will do

• Participate in the development of critical and challenging services, seeking to build long-term and sustainable solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Build integration with 3rd party API and tools.
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale.

Requirements

• Commitment to delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions and continuously improving processes.
• Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using Kotlin/Java with Spring Framework.
• Strong knowledge of asynchronous processing, message queuing, and retry/backoff strategies for reliable system communication.
• Solid software architecture expertise, including Event-driven architectures, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Hexagonal / Ports & Adapters architecture.
• Strong software quality orientation with proficiency in automated testing (unit, integration and e2e tests).
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services and Cloud-Native environments (Kubernetes, container orchestration, service discovery).
• Expertise in designing and implementing observability and traceability strategies, including distributed tracing, centralized logging, and metrics instrumentation.
• Proven track record with microservices architectures, high-throughput distributed systems, and resilience engineering techniques (circuit breakers, retries, fallback mechanisms).
• Demonstrated ownership of technical decisions, architectural trade-offs, and phased delivery strategies throughout career.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Software development using AI tools.
• Practical experience with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions).
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with progressive delivery strategies such as blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature flagging.

Culture & Benefits

• Free Gold+ membership with access to onsite gyms and studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources.
• Complete emotional wellbeing program with personalized journeys that combine individual therapy sessions and on-demand content.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Flexible work options.
• Paid time off, including vacations, additional days off per year, and a birthday holiday.
• Paid parental leave.
• Access to world-class platforms, interactive sessions, and personalized development roadmap for career growth.