Backend Software Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $115,000–$175,000 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 for high traffic volumes, predictable latency, strong availability, consistency, and well-defined failure behavior.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, make technical decisions, and manage stakeholder alignment across teams.
• Improve internal developer experience through reliable platform capabilities, technical design documents, and clear communication of trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering practices through code reviews, design reviews, and onboarding.

Requirements

• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services consumed by multiple engineering teams.
• Hands-on expertise in distributed systems, including consistency, availability, latency, and failure-mode behavior.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one backend language: Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput messaging, streaming, and event-driven architectures using technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, or NATS.
• Experience with relational, key-value, document, and search data-storage workloads, plus cross-team technical leadership and mentoring.

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer-platform initiatives at scale.
• Contributions to widely used open-source platform or infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with control-plane and 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 related to platform engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established technology consulting and software development organization.
• Equal employment opportunity and a workplace free from harassment and discrimination.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume for consideration.
• U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.
• New H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored for this position.