Engineering Lead (Fintech)

TL;DR

Engineering Lead (Fintech): Spearheading development of core services managing employee balances, debt, ledger, billing, repayments, and reconciliation with an accent on distributed microservices architecture, high availability, and financial transaction integrity. Focus on designing scalable RESTful APIs, resilient asynchronous workflows, and enforcing observability best practices.

Remote, EMEA

Company

hirify.global is the fastest-growing earned wage access (EWA) fintech in the U.S., serving 2.5 million employees and backed by top investors like QED and Prosus.

What you will do

• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions and lead engineering efforts in a fully distributed microservices architecture.
• Lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, managing tech refinements and productivity.
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs, integrations with 3rd-party vendors, and reusable code libraries.
• Enforce observability with logging, metrics, alerting; create technical documentation; monitor for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate cross-team to align priorities, manage dependencies, and ensure seamless development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 7+ years professional experience, including 2+ years in leadership role
• Expert in designing distributed systems, understanding trade-offs like consistency vs. availability
• Strong ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and communication skills
• Expert-level proficiency in Go and/or Python
• Deep SQL (PostgreSQL) expertise: transaction isolation, locking, schema migrations at scale
• Strong Kafka experience for asynchronous workflows; AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS), Docker/Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and infrastructure-as-code mentality

Culture & Benefits

• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity.
• Support for disabilities with accommodations available.
• Smooth candidate experience prioritized in a 4-week interview process with flexibility options.

Hiring process

• Multi-stage interviews over about 4 weeks, depending on role.
• Opportunity to request flexibility or accommodations.