Staff Engineer (Backend/Social Platform)

Location: Hybrid, with more than half of the time onsite three days per week in the San Francisco or Denver office.

Salary: $225,000–$250,000 base compensation for Denver, or $249,000–$278,000 for San Francisco, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds software for active people, including social and workout-tracking features used by athletes worldwide.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for hirify.global’s social platform services.
• Act as tech lead for a small engineering pod and coordinate planning, delivery, and cross-team processes.
• Lead modernization and migration efforts for critical platform services.
• Partner with product teams to anticipate platform needs and align technical investments with the product roadmap.
• Design, build, and review systems supporting feed, photo/video sharing, experimentation, and notifications.
• Mentor engineers across the pod and the wider technology organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional backend or server engineering experience with a track record of setting technical direction.
• Experience leading technical projects involving multiple engineers, including scoping, decomposition, and delivery coordination.
• Experience acting as a tech lead, facilitating team processes, and driving roadmaps.
• Strong system design skills for distributed systems at scale, including architecture decisions, trade-offs, and long-term evolution.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language: Ruby, Scala, Go, or Java, with the ability to learn others.
• Experience with distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Production experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, Redis, and Cassandra.
• Interest in leading prioritization and delivery beyond an individually assigned project.

Nice to have

• Experience with feed systems, social graphs, or recommendation and ranking systems.
• Experience with large-scale system migrations, such as moving a critical service between languages or frameworks.
• Familiarity with server-driven UI patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model with regular onsite collaboration in San Francisco or Denver.
• Base compensation varies by location, skills, experience, qualifications, and market conditions.
• Equity and additional benefits are included in the total compensation package.
• Inclusive workplace focused on accessibility, equal opportunity, and supporting employee growth.