Backend Engineer (Go, Fintech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer (Go, Fintech): Own critical financial systems end-to-end and build net-new backend products for co-branded credit programs with an accent on transaction authorization, ledger accounting, credit decisioning, rewards engines, and payment processing. Focus on designing reliable distributed systems with strong data consistency, high-performance relational databases, and production-grade API infrastructure while leveraging AI tools across the development lifecycle.

Company

hirify.global builds modern payments and rewards infrastructure that helps brands grow customer lifetime value through smarter co-branded credit programs.

What you will do

• Own backend financial systems end-to-end, from transaction authorization and ledger accounting to credit decisioning, rewards engines, and payment processing.
• Design and ship net-new backend products as the platform expands into new financial products and deeper rewards capabilities.
• Build foundational platform work including shared services, API infrastructure, and developer tooling to improve engineering speed and reliability.
• Leverage AI tools across the stack, from prototyping and testing to production code.
• Collaborate across product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, including root cause analysis.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production backend systems (fintech experience is a plus).
• Experience building services that handle real money, real users, or real-time decisions with strong attention to correctness.
• Proficiency in Go (primary backend language) or a similar language with willingness to ramp quickly.
• Experience ensuring data consistency and transactional integrity across distributed systems.
• Strong relational database skills: schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling; comfortable with on-call and incident response.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work across New York City and San Francisco.
• Competitive compensation with equity; flexible paid time off.
• Fully covered healthcare with dependent coverage; additional coverage via One Medical and optional FSA.
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents.
• Access to industry-leading technology and configured work computers of your choice.