Senior Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Fintech): Building and operating the financial infrastructure for restaurant payments with an accent on distributed systems and real-time transaction workflows. Focus on designing scalable architectures, ensuring data integrity, and integrating AI-driven engineering practices to accelerate development.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $160,000 – $185,000

Company

hirify.global is a financial platform that connects restaurants and diners through real-time financial transactions and operational workflows.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events.
• Architect services to handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and failure recovery for mission-critical systems.
• Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong distributed systems design experience.
• Expertise in at least one major web framework (e.g., Rails, Django, Express, Fastify).
• Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity.
• Experience designing highly available production systems.
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design.

Nice to have

• Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems.
• Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows.
• Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications.
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features.

Culture & Benefits

• High ownership and autonomy in architectural decisions within a fast-moving startup environment.
• Opportunity to shape an AI-first engineering culture.
• 100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees.
• Generous PTO, company holiday policy, and company-paid Short Term Disability.
• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave.
• Dog-friendly workspace in downtown Austin for in-office team members.