Software Architect (API Platform)

TL;DR

Software Architect (API Platform): Leading the technical vision and roadmap for the API platform to ensure reliability, performance, and scalable design conventions with an accent on distributed systems and API lifecycle management. Focus on defining API standards, evolving the API gateway, and guiding complex system trade-offs for internal and external consumers.

Location: Must be based in Poland

Salary: $11,300 - $13,000 per month (B2B)

Company

hirify.global provides home service professionals with a comprehensive suite of tools for scheduling, dispatching, and payments to streamline their business operations.

What you will do

• Lead the technical vision and roadmap for the API Platform.
• Define and communicate API standards including design guidelines, versioning, security, and performance.
• Act as the principal architect for API-related initiatives, shaping system design and guiding complex trade-offs.
• Drive improvements in API reliability, performance, and observability (SLIs/SLOs, rate limiting).
• Lead key platform initiatives such as API gateway evolution and system decomposition.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers on API design and distributed systems thinking.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer building large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record in leading the technical direction for complex systems.
• Strong experience designing and evolving REST, gRPC, or GraphQL APIs.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: reliability, scalability, consistency, and latency.
• Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and performance tuning.
• Fluency in both Polish and English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures.
• Experience with MySQL at scale.
• Previous work on internal platform or infrastructure teams.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work aligned with Central European Time.
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company backed by top-tier VCs.
• Flexible work hours and paid time off.
• Hardware package including the newest MacBook and a $500 setup fee.
• Innovation-driven culture that values big ideas and professional growth.