Senior Backend Engineer (IoT)

Location: Fully remote, US-based. Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States or able to obtain sponsorship.

Base salary: $130,000–$160,000 annually, plus equity and a cash bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a Series A company building a cold-chain risk-management and logistics orchestration platform for pharmaceutical and perishable-goods shippers.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for a logistics orchestration and decision-intelligence platform.
• Own distributed systems that ingest, process, and contextualize IoT sensor and carrier data at scale.
• Build predictive systems for on-time, in-full performance and automate exception-handling workflows.
• Integrate webhooks, message queues, carrier APIs, and sensor vendor APIs into a unified data layer.
• Design event-driven architectures using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging systems.
• Deploy, operate, and scale cloud services while collaborating with product and leadership on architecture and domain requirements.

Requirements

• 5–15 years of backend engineering experience building scalable, data-intensive distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, or Rust; hands-on Python and/or Java experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with IoT data ingestion, processing, and contextualization.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, REST and/or gRPC APIs.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka or RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Eligibility to work in the United States or ability to obtain sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Experience with NoSQL databases and ETL pipelines.
• Domain knowledge in logistics, cold chain, supply chain, or IoT/telematics.
• Familiarity with data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements for pharma or temperature-controlled logistics.
• Experience at a growth-stage startup or in logistics and supply-chain technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Senior individual contributor position on a small, fast-moving Series A team.
• Fully remote work from the United States.
• Equity and a cash bonus in addition to base salary.
• Independent ownership of architecture and product decisions.