Hive.co

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Hive.co

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoPython

About the role

  • Design and build robust backend services that enable Hive's marketing platform to scale
  • Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through deployment and production support
  • Build and optimize high-throughput data pipelines processing billions of customer data points
  • Collaborate with product teams to design scalable APIs and integrate with external platforms like Ticketmaster and Shopify
  • Enhance application performance and reliability across the stack
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring and observability for the services you build

Requirements

  • 7+ years building backend services and APIs at scale
  • Strong experience with AWS (or similar cloud platforms)
  • Demonstrated expertise in Python/Django, database design, API design, distributed systems
  • Experience owning production services, including participating in on-call rotations and incident response
  • Experience with high-volume data processing and real-time systems
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and explain complex technical concepts clearly
Benefits
  • Opportunity to shape reliability practices: help define and scale how reliability is approached at a rapidly growing company
  • Collaborative engineering team: work alongside experienced engineers who care deeply about building reliable, high-quality systems
  • Meaningful salary and equity: you're rewarded based on impact
  • Work fully remotely in Canada: where you are most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere. We just ask that you are located in Canada and have the legal work authorization.
  • Flexible work hours: customize your schedule as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive.
  • Health + Insurance: Comprehensive health and dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program.
  • Open vacation/PTO policy: so you can be happy and healthy!
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