Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global builds synthetic data and simulation platforms for autonomous vehicle and robotics teams, including ML reconstruction pipelines and simulation-as-a-service products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain customer-facing backend services, APIs, web application integrations, and asynchronous processing pipelines.
• Design RESTful API endpoints and data models with clear separation between data and business logic.
• Own features end to end, from requirements gathering and system design through deployment and production operation.
• Collaborate with product managers, technical stakeholders, SRE, and field engineering on requirements, interface design, and deployment concerns.
• Debug production issues, participate in incident response, and improve observability, alerting, and service reliability.
• Contribute to standards for testing, code quality, API documentation, dependency management, and service structure.

Requirements

• Experience delivering complex backend projects across APIs, databases, and service integrations.
• Strong RESTful API design experience, including resource modeling, authentication, versioning, and documentation.
• Production experience with Python and Flask, FastAPI, or equivalent web frameworks, plus PostgreSQL or similar relational databases and ORM patterns.
• Experience deploying, operating, and debugging services on Linux with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience owning production services, including monitoring, alerting, on-call response, and post-incident improvements.
• Ability to gather requirements and collaborate with product and customer-facing stakeholders to produce concrete technical designs.

Nice to have

• Experience with event-driven systems, message brokers, workflow orchestration tools, load balancers, HTTP proxies, or service mesh patterns.
• Experience with SQLAlchemy, production monitoring databases, and alerting infrastructure.
• Ownership of production React web applications, including architecture, state management, deployment, testing, build tooling, or performance optimization.
• Experience in simulation, ML pipelines, or autonomous systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work within the engineering organization.
• End-to-end ownership of customer-facing products and production services.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, SRE, and field engineering.
• Focus on engineering standards, operational responsibility, and continuous service improvement.