Lead Backend Developer (Distributed Systems)

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $80,000–$95,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate foundational backend platforms and shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Develop request routing, traffic management, data fan-out, caching, asynchronous job execution, and durable event-processing capabilities.
• Design distributed systems with strong consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode guarantees.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, manage stakeholders, and make technical decisions across teams.
• Author technical design documents, communicate trade-offs, and contribute to code review, design review, and onboarding.
• Mentor engineers and help shape engineering culture and internal developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• At least six years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep knowledge of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Must be based in the United States; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored. U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates may apply.

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer platforms at scale.
• Contributions to open-source platform or infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with control-plane/data-plane patterns, service mesh internals, or workflow-orchestration engines.
• Experience designing backward-compatible, versioned platform APIs.
• Public technical writing, conference talks, or community contributions on platform engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Fully remote work within the United States.
• Opportunity to contribute to cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.