Senior Staff Data Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Staff Data Engineer (Fintech): Building and operating hirify.global’s core data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data for AI and analytics with an accent on scalable platform capabilities and distributed systems design. Focus on architecting end-to-end data lifecycles, including real-time streaming pipelines, data lake storage, and high-performance query engines.

Location: Must be based in the United States (Remote-eligible or Hybrid in San Jose, CA or Draper, UT)

Salary: $166,400 - $244,800 USD (depending on geographic zone)

Company

hirify.global is a fintech company focused on automating financial processes for businesses through innovative software tools.

What you will do

• Drive platform-wide technical decisions and architect end-to-end data platform capabilities.
• Evolve critical infrastructure across the data lifecycle, spanning ingest, store, enrich, query, and serve.
• Define technical direction for complex problems like streaming versus batch trade-offs and schema contracts.
• Lead large-scale technical migrations, including warehouse-to-lake and compute platform upgrades.
• Partner with ML/AI, Risk, and Payments teams to translate diverse data needs into durable platform solutions.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, actively shaping the technical culture and engineering quality bar.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, distributed systems, or software engineering.
• 5+ years specifically on data platform, data infrastructure, or data systems teams.
• Expertise in distributed systems design, event streaming (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming), and CDC patterns.
• Proficiency with batch processing stacks (Airflow, dbt, Spark/Glue) and open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake).
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills with solid CI/CD, testing, and observability fundamentals.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience in financial services, fintech, or SaaS companies.
• Experience building self-serve data platforms or developer-facing infrastructure tooling.
• Experience working in highly regulated data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% paid employee health, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan, HSA, and FSA accounts.
• Flexible time off, 11+ observed holidays, and wellness days.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with employee discounts.
• Life and Long/Short-term disability insurance coverage.