Senior Software Engineer, Data Backend

Location: Must be based in Taipei, Taiwan; open to overseas candidates with visa support

Company

hirify.global is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service company that develops intelligent software for AI-powered business decision-making.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and data platform components in production.
• Develop and optimize streaming and batch data workflows using Python, Spark, and SQL.
• Improve reliability and operability through monitoring, alerting, incident prevention, and recovery.
• Strengthen data quality and consistency with schemas, contracts, and validation mechanisms.
• Diagnose production issues across service and data layers while driving performance and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with product, platform, and data teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience in backend or data-intensive systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with distributed data systems such as Kafka and Spark or Databricks.
• Experience operating services or pipelines in cloud production environments; GCP is preferred.
• Understanding of observability, on-call operations, incident response, communication, and technical ownership.
• Fluent English required; the role is based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with Kubernetes/GKE and Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Knowledge of data governance, identity and profile systems, or FinOps.
• Scala or Java experience for Spark ecosystem optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on high-impact, business-critical data backend systems.
• Own production outcomes across scale, quality, and cost.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams working across AI and data.
• Grow technical leadership while remaining hands-on.
• Visa support is available for overseas candidates.