Staff Software Engineer (Data Engineering)

Location: San Diego, California or Mountain View, California

Base pay: $188,500–$255,000 in San Diego; $202,500–$274,000 in Mountain View, plus potential bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a financial technology platform developing products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Build and support data frameworks, ingestion pipelines, data models, and software tools for customer experience insights.
• Lead complex data engineering initiatives across the full software product lifecycle.
• Design, implement, troubleshoot, and optimize scalable data solutions using cloud and big data technologies.
• Drive technical work across scrum teams of 5–12 engineers and influence product and technology direction.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to test hypotheses and develop growth-focused solutions.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical sessions, and promote inclusive engineering practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in data engineering.
• Expertise in Java with Spring and Spring Boot, Scala for Spark, or other JVM-based languages.
• 5+ years of professional experience with SQL, XML, JSON, YAML, Python, and Linux.
• Experience building AI/ML and generative AI applications, including personalization, recommendation engines, or predictive modeling.
• Expertise with Spark, Docker, Kubernetes, Databricks, SageMaker, feature management platforms, and notebook-based development.
• Strong AWS, Azure, or GCP experience, data warehousing and analytics architecture knowledge, and experience handling large data volumes.

Nice to have

• Experience using GenAI development tools such as Cursor or Windsurf.
• Experience with AWS EC2, S3, EMR, DynamoDB, and Athena.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or Extreme Programming methodologies.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role with no direct managerial responsibilities.
• 70–85% hands-on development across the software lifecycle.
• Opportunity to influence technology and product direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Competitive compensation with potential cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits.
• Focus on operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.