Lead Software Engineer

Location: Remote; Spain listed as the location, with global hiring across multiple countries and time zones

Company

hirify.global builds technology products used by millions of users across Southeast Asia.

What you will do

• Own technical design and execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives.
• Design scalable and reliable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure.
• Write code, prototype solutions, review code, debug issues, and solve production problems alongside the team.
• Drive architecture decisions and trade-offs involving speed, scalability, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• Turn ambiguous product problems into clear technical solutions and execution plans.
• Raise engineering quality through system design, testing, security, observability, development practices, and technical mentorship.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
• Deep expertise in at least one of backend, frontend, distributed systems, APIs, databases, or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong system design and architecture skills for complex or high-scale systems.
• Strong coding ability and willingness to remain hands-on.
• Experience technically leading major engineering projects from design through production.
• Strong English communication is required for collaboration across global teams and time zones.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling engineering teams, systems, or development practices through significant growth.
• Experience operating across multiple products, markets, or countries.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in a distributed international team.
• Collaboration with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
• Fast-moving engineering environment focused on solving complex technical problems.

Hiring process

• Online assessment or practical task.
• Technical interview.
• CEO or final-round interview; the process may be completed and followed by an offer within one week from the start of interviews.