Lead Backend Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $750,000–$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 large-scale, high-throughput backend services for mission-critical workloads.
• Architect core platforms used by other engineering teams.
• Improve scalability, reliability, performance, and engineering quality across distributed systems.
• Apply distributed systems principles to navigate consistency, availability, and latency trade-offs.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Communicate technical decisions, maintain documentation, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including significant distributed systems experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Scala, or a similar language.
• Deep understanding of consensus, replication, and CAP trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or comparable high-throughput messaging systems.
• Experience with SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, major cloud platforms, debugging, communication, documentation, and mentorship.

Nice to have

• Leadership of complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Production experience with Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Exposure to Istio, Linkerd, chaos engineering, or relevant open-source distributed systems projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Established organization with career growth opportunities.
• Applicants must be eligible to work 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 are encouraged to apply.