Staff Software Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer (Backend): Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for enterprise-scale SaaS applications while building critical systems with an accent on microservices, cloud-native distributed systems, and scalability/reliability/security. Focus on designing and implementing event-driven architectures, mentoring engineers, and raising the bar for testing, code reviews, and system thinking.

Location: Barcelona

Salary: €75,000 - €89,000 a year

Company

hirify.global builds SaaS solutions for corporate expenses and invoice management to help organizations improve compliance and reduce costs.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for enterprise-scale SaaS applications
• Contribute hands-on to the most critical coding projects, solving complex engineering problems
• Design and implement microservice and cloud-based systems
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical direction with business goals
• Mentor engineers and elevate team practices around testing, quality, design, and code reviews

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years designing and scaling microservices systems
• Strong background in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and REST/gRPC
• Proficiency in modern object-oriented programming and ability to design/review systems in Java, Go, C#, or Python
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong cloud-native platform experience (preferably AWS)
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching strategies, and message queues

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace in Barcelona
• Transparent interview process with a short technical screening followed by interviews with engineers
• Interview process typically completed within two weeks
• Equal employment opportunity (EEO) commitment

Hiring process

• Complete a short technical screening
• Participate in interviews with several engineers
• Expect a decision within about two weeks