Staff Developer (Go)

TL;DR

Staff Developer (Go): Building and evolving foundational platform capabilities for a high-scale SaaS environment with an accent on feature flagging, developer tooling, and experimentation infrastructure. Focus on designing scalable backend services, leading cross-team technical initiatives, and establishing architectural guardrails to ensure reliability and velocity.

Location: Must be based in the United States or Canada

Salary: $192,000–$278,000 USD (US) or $167,000–$242,000 CAD (Canada)

Company

hirify.global is a leading cybersecurity company providing unified access management and password security solutions for over 180,000 businesses.

What you will do

• Drive the evolution of the Feature Rollout Service to support complex service-to-service communication.
• Lead the architecture and delivery of a new experimentation platform for consistent product testing.
• Partner with engineering teams to ship Typeshare 2.0 and improve cross-language type safety.
• Improve developer experience by reducing toil through automation and schema refactoring.
• Establish technical guardrails to balance platform velocity with operational maturity and security.
• Mentor engineers and influence roadmap strategy based on technical constraints and infrastructure opportunities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in a production SaaS environment.
• Must be based in the United States or Canada.
• Hands-on experience building platform-level services like feature flagging, schema management, or developer tooling.
• Proven ability to design scalable backend services and APIs spanning multiple teams.
• Proficiency in Go.
• Strong communication skills to align stakeholders across frontend, backend, and product teams.

Nice to have

• Experience migrating to centralized feature flag or A/B testing systems at scale.
• Familiarity with schema type systems and cross-service type safety.
• Experience with developer experience tooling such as build systems, CI/CD, or changelog automation.
• Familiarity with Nix, monorepo tooling, or code generation frameworks like Typeshare.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment with occasional travel for offsites and team meetings.
• Competitive health, dental, and retirement matching programs (401k/RRSP).
• Generous paid time off policy and maternity/parental leave top-up.
• RSU program for most employees.
• Commitment to a collaborative, transparent, and human-centric culture.
• Active integration of AI tools and best practices in daily development workflows.