Senior Backend Software Engineer (IoT)

Location: San Francisco, United States

Salary: $155,000–$180,000 per year plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops clean-energy products that connect homes, vehicles, electrical panels, and cloud software to support electrification and resilient energy systems.

What you will do

• Design and develop cloud features and subsystems serving homeowners, installers, fleet operators, utilities, and enterprise partners.
• Build scalable Kotlin and TypeScript services, APIs, and event-driven systems using gRPC, REST, GraphQL, MQTT, and Kafka.
• Bridge Cloud and Platform engineering through service deployment, Kubernetes networking, reliability, and infrastructure design.
• Integrate hirify.global hardware, mobile applications, dashboards, third-party hardware partners, payment systems, and subscription billing.
• Scale cloud and data infrastructure for a growing fleet and maintain services through upgrades and technical debt management.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, design, firmware, frontend, backend, data, mobile, and systems software teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience and ownership of projects and features.
• Professional experience with a common backend programming language and willingness to work with Kotlin, TypeScript, and Python.
• Strong JVM expertise, including internals, performance tuning, memory management, and long-term service maintenance.
• Deep Apache Kafka experience with topics, consumer groups, stream processing, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including workload debugging, DNS, ingress, service mesh, and deployment architecture.
• Experience operating observability platforms such as Datadog, including dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, and incident response.

Nice to have

• Experience with IoT products, SQL and NoSQL datastores, gRPC or GraphQL APIs, or rich mobile applications.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Pulumi or Terraform and familiarity with Flink or Spark.
• Service mesh, Spring Boot, Micronaut, app store payments, Stripe billing, B2B APIs, partner integrations, or tenant isolation experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with 100% employee premiums for base plans, plus additional coverage options.
• Parental leave of up to 24 weeks depending on eligibility.
• Flexible hours, one holiday per month, and flexible time off.
• Office-based team environment with employee resource groups, social events, recognition breakfasts, and learning sessions.

Hiring process

• Submit an application and receive details about the next steps during the hiring process.