Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days per week in the New York City office

Salary: $115,000–$140,000 annual base salary, plus equity and benefits

Company

hirify.global builds financial products and services in partnership with major banks, financial service providers, and consumer brands.

What you will do

• Own platform projects end-to-end, from scoping and design review through delivery and operation.
• Build and improve services, jobs, frameworks, shared libraries, internal tooling, and custom lint rules for the Integrations Platform.
• Improve reliability and performance across proxy management, browser fleets, on-premises infrastructure, session and state management, and latency-sensitive AWS code paths.
• Research and solve reverse-engineering challenges involving integrations, scrapers, automation, and systems that change over time.
• Operate the platform in production through on-call participation, incident response, postmortems, dependency management, and security remediation.
• Apply AI-assisted development workflows to engineering work and developer tooling.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of backend integrations engineering experience building production services.
• Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python skills, or comparable language experience with a clear path to Python 3.10+.
• Production operations experience, including on-call rotations, incident debugging, and shipping fixes under time pressure.
• Working knowledge of AWS and experience with at least one of DynamoDB, S3, IAM, or ECR.
• Solid systems-design fundamentals, AI-assisted engineering experience, and comfort with concurrency and asynchronous patterns.

Nice to have

• Experience with Selenium, Chrome DevTools Protocol, Playwright, browser fingerprinting, CAPTCHA challenges, or proxy management.
• Working knowledge of OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, MFA orchestration, or identity providers such as Okta, Microsoft Entra, PingOne, Duo, and ID.me.
• Production experience with FastAPI, Redis, Celery, or gRPC.
• Experience in fintech, payroll, or other regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, well-funded company with opportunities to influence products and culture.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and short-term disability insurance.
• Flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, and a 401(k) retirement plan.
• Equity and compensation package, mentorship opportunities, and a free Citi Bike membership.
• Pet-friendly offices and Zoom spaces.
• Visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.