Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Fintech): Building dispute automation, fraud prevention, and payment-risk infrastructure for a global payments platform with an accent on backend development, rules engines, and integrations with payment service providers and fraud vendors. Focus on designing reliable event-driven workflows, making independent architecture decisions, and extending systems across new providers while supporting the Dispute Management dashboard.

Location: Fully remote and globally distributed. The role is listed for candidates in South Africa, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, and Romania, with access to coworking spaces and periodic workations or company retreats.

Company

hirify.global provides unified infrastructure for global payments, helping finance and payments teams manage visibility, performance, fraud, and disputes through a single platform.

What you will do

• Own dispute automation features end-to-end, including deadline tracking, evidence collection, and response templates.
• Extend dispute lifecycle coverage to additional payment service providers.
• Build components of the rules and signals engine, including velocity rules, blocklists, and device fingerprinting.
• Improve integrations with fraud vendors and help merchants compare and switch between providers.
• Write RFCs and ADRs, make architecture decisions, and work independently with Product and Engineering Management.
• Contribute to backend systems and, where needed, the frontend Dispute Management dashboard.

Requirements

• Recent experience shipping production-ready backend or full-stack software independently from scoping through rollout.
• Ability to write RFCs and make architecture decisions with minimal senior oversight.
• Willingness to transition to Python without previous Python experience.
• Strong testing, observability, and security practices.
• The role involves working in an early-stage team environment with substantial ambiguity and ownership.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of card scheme rules, chargeback workflows, or fraud vendor integrations.
• Experience with webhook-based event systems, rules engines, or orchestration platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a globally distributed organization.
• Uncapped holiday with a minimum of 25 days to be taken.
• Workations, an annual company retreat, and coworking space access across major cities.
• Competitive share options and a generous learning budget.
• Equipment for the role and £500 toward a home office setup.
• Private medical insurance and additional location-dependent benefits.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with a Talent Partner.
• Interview with the Hiring Manager followed by a role-contextualized challenge.
• Final values-alignment interview.