Software Engineer II/ Software Developer (Backend)

Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Salary: $119,400–$169,400 CAD base pay range

Company

hirify.global is the gaming and entertainment brand of Sony Interactive Entertainment, delivering hardware, network services, and consumer experiences to players worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend services and APIs for mobile and web applications.
• Contribute to backend architecture and technical decisions involving scalability, availability, consistency, latency, security, and cost.
• Design and maintain data models across relational and non-relational databases, caching systems, and asynchronous processing systems.
• Build and maintain GraphQL and REST APIs supporting mobile and web client experiences.
• Monitor and improve service performance, reliability, observability, and operational health.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and client engineers, and participate in code reviews and technical knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional software development experience building backend services or applications.
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in server-side development, preferably Node and TypeScript.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including data modeling, indexing, transactions, and performance optimization; PostgreSQL is preferred.
• Experience designing, building, or integrating GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with caching, message queues, event streams, asynchronous processing, cloud infrastructure, containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and AWS or another major cloud platform.

Nice to have

• Experience building social, community, gaming, or other consumer products.
• Understanding of real-time communication systems, social graphs, recommendation systems, content discovery, or personalization platforms.
• Familiarity with trust and safety, content moderation, abuse prevention, or user-reporting systems.
• Experience at an early-stage startup or on a zero-to-one product team.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a fast-moving startup-style initiative backed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
• Build new mobile and web experiences for gamers.
• Base pay may vary according to the hybrid working policy, skills, experience, and location.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.
• Sony is an equal opportunity and Fair Chance employer committed to an inclusive environment.