Software Developer

Summary

Join Hive's brand new Ads team as a founding engineer and help build it from the ground up. You'll have a significant impact on product development and team culture, influencing engineering operations and collaborating with other teams. This role is crucial in driving a new revenue stream and leading cross-functional efforts. You will rapidly build new features, contribute to code reviews and technical planning, and take ownership of projects. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience building high-performance software systems and thrives in fast-paced, remote environments. Hive offers a competitive compensation package including meaningful salary and equity, fully remote work in Canada, flexible hours, comprehensive health insurance, open vacation policy, and more.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building highly performant software systems
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences
• You’re able to design and articulate simple solutions to complex problems, identifying tradeoffs and risks
• You’ve seen the inner workings of how software is made by a team on a shared codebase - you can articulate what communication, development processes and tooling you do/don’t find effective and why
• You've thrived in remote settings, excelling in async communication, independent work, and time management. You can articulate your preferred communication and working style effectively
• Legally able to work within Canada

Responsibilities

• Rapidly build new features that users will love, continuously refining them based on feedback
• Contribute to code reviews, technical spec reviews, technical planning, and architectural decision-making
• Be able to take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish
• Take part in technical planning and architectural decision-making
• Find solutions to optimize bottle-necks and general system wide performance. Always on the lookout to keep the tech stack updated with current standards
• Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, and well documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems
• Work directly with our customer success team to solve customer-impacting problems

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with React, Typescript, Python, Django, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Benefits

• Meaningful salary and equity
• Work fully remote in Canada
• Flexible work hours
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health & dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program
• Open vacation/PTO policy