Software Engineer, Backend

HIFI

New York City, US
Base: $135,000 - $160,000 usd; bonus/equity: not s...
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Api design
Data modeling
Event-driven pipelines
** HIFI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their innovative financial infrastructure. This role involves designing APIs, building backend systems, and ensuring high performance and reliability in the context of modern money movement. **

Job Summary

  • HIFI exists to fix that. Our mission is to make money programmable by default, and to give developers and businesses the tools to move value at software speed.
  • As a Senior Backend Engineer at HIFI, you'll own critical components of our payments infrastructure — from API design and data modeling to event-driven pipelines and financial-grade reliability.
  • We offer full health coverage (medical, dental and vision) and unlimited PTO.

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** HIFI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance their innovative financial infrastructure. This role involves designing APIs, building backend systems, and ensuring high performance and reliability in the context of modern money movement. **

Salary

Base: $135,000 - $160,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: full health coverage, unlimited PTO

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • API design
  • data modeling
  • event-driven pipelines
  • financial-grade reliability
  • modern money movement
  • distributed services

Nice-to-have

  • query optimization
  • database performance tuning
  • concurrency control
  • distributed systems
  • database transactions
  • event-driven architectures
  • messaging patterns
  • job queues
  • caching services
  • data pipelines
  • security best practices
  • building product from zero to one
  • financial systems
  • payments
  • blockchain/crypto technologies

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 2+ years of professional software development experience
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js, Go, or Python
  • Experience with RESTful APIs
  • Experience with PostgreSQL
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD, testing, and monitoring
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

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