Principal Backend Developer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $120,000–$170,000 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 that handle high traffic volumes with predictable latency and resilient failure-mode behavior.
• Lead multi-quarter platform initiatives, make technical decisions, and manage stakeholder alignment across teams.
• Author technical design documents and communicate architectural trade-offs.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and onboarding contributions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Six or more years of professional backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms or shared services for 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 such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or modern C++.
• Deep knowledge of high-throughput messaging, streaming, event-driven architectures, and relational, key-value, document, and search data stores.

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes-based platforms or contributing to internal developer-platform initiatives at scale.
• Contributions to 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 other community contributions on platform engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Career growth opportunities within an established organization.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States; new H-1B visa petitions cannot be sponsored.
• Existing H-1B transfer candidates, U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, and EAD holders are encouraged to apply.