Principal Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Fintech): Leading the design and delivery of new backend services that power receivers' ability to save and spend money in their home countries with an accent on account structures and transaction rails. Focus on integrating with hirify.global's global money-movement infrastructure and championing security, trust, and compliance.

Location: Seattle, WA, United States. Corporate team members have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week.

Salary: $240,000 - $300,000

Company

hirify.global provides secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage money, ensuring true peace of mind.

What you will do

• Lead the design and delivery of new backend services that power receivers' ability to save and spend money in their home countries.
• Define APIs, data models, and event-driven architectures that are secure and extensible.
• Partner with core platform teams to integrate new receiver-side capabilities with hirify.global's global money-movement infrastructure.
• Embed security and compliance requirements from day one, working with Legal, Compliance, and Security Engineering.
• Design systems with least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, and comprehensive audit trails.
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor engineers, leading design reviews, and shaping the technical roadmap for the receiver segment.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Demonstrated experience leading zero-to-one technical efforts.
• Deep expertise in backend engineering: service oriented architectures, event-driven architectures, RESTful and async APIs, and relational or distributed databases.
• Strong security and compliance sensibility, particularly in regulated industries (fintech, banking, payments, or healthcare).
• Proven ability to influence without authority, driving alignment across engineering, product, legal, and operations stakeholders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building financial products for emerging markets (LATAM, Sub-Saharan Africa, South/Southeast Asia, or similar).
• Background in payments infrastructure: card rails, ACH, real-time payment networks, mobile money, or digital wallets.
• Familiarity with AML/KYC frameworks, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 compliance in a software context.
• Experience working with partner financial institutions, fintechs, or licensed payment processors via API integration.
• Contributions to open-source or engineering community through publications, talks, or tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching.
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave.
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Continuing education and travel benefits.