Backend Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Remote, but candidates must be based in Portugal

Company

hirify.global develops digital financial and insurance products, including an AI-powered neobank app serving customers across Southeast Asia.

What you will do

• Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk workflows.
• Design reliable systems for customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
• Integrate internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
• Own backend quality across reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features safely and efficiently.
• Improve existing systems by simplifying flows, reducing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience with production systems.
• Good understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
• Experience building services used by real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
• Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset.
• Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong English communication is required; English is the main working language.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, wallets, KYC, fraud, or risk.
• Personal experience building, shipping, or scaling a serious product, platform, or system.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work for candidates based in Portugal.
• Collaboration across global teams representing more than 20 nationalities.
• Focus on building next-generation financial products and practical customer solutions.
• Fast-moving environment with changing product requirements and cross-functional collaboration.

Hiring process

• Online assessment or practical task.
• Technical interview.
• CEO or final round, with an intended offer within one week of starting the interview process for strong candidates.