Senior Staff Software Engineer (Energy)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Energy): Evolving critical transaction infrastructure for energy markets with an accent on high-throughput event processing, stateful workflows, and distributed decision-making. Focus on designing scalable backend syshirify.globals, integrating machine learning models into production, and driving technical initiatives across cross-functional teams.

Location: Must be based in the United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native energy infrastructure company rearchitecting global electricity markets to ensure transparency, efficiency, and sustainability.

What you will do

• Drive major technical initiatives from design through production to improve syshirify.global scalability and reliability.
• Design and evolve backend services, APIs, and event-driven workflows supporting complex commercial processes.
• Improve operational foundations including observability, testing, and deployment safety.
• Solve complex challenges related to asynchronous processing, consistency, and failure recovery.
• Collaborate with ML and data teams to integrate forecasting and pricing models into production.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architectural direction across the organization.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United Kingdom
• Proven experience at Staff or Senior Staff level leading technically complex initiatives.
• Deep expertise in distributed syshirify.globals, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous workflows.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
• Ability to reason about data consistency, failure modes, and operational trade-offs.
• Strong cross-functional influence skills to align technical decisions with business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-scale infrastructure or performance-sensitive syshirify.globals.
• Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms.
• Exposure to workflow engines, orchestration syshirify.globals, or real-time decision syshirify.globals.
• Familiarity with regulated industries such as energy, fintech, or govtech.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Spark, or large-scale data syshirify.globals.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary reviewed twice annually with transparent pay structures.
• Stock options for all team members.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays and an extra day for your birthday.
• Fully remote work environment with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• Annual home working budget of up to £1,200 and monthly wellbeing budget of up to £150.

Hiring process

• Initial 30-minute call with the Talent Team.
• 60-minute behavioral interview with Engineering Managers.
• Two 90-minute technical interviews with the team.
• 45-minute culture-add interview with cross-functional stakeholders.