Staff Engineer

Our Engineering team owns the code that lets our customers do powerful things with our product, simply and intuitively. We care about delivering the right product iterations quickly - we build minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, listen to customer feedback, and iterate.

At Hive, we ingest high-volume data in real-time from 20+ integrations (like Ticketmaster and Shopify), we store and query billions of customer data points, and we send 200MM+ of email/SMS every month to our client's customers. We've built a growing, profitable business and the scale of technical problems we're solving is quickly growing too!

In this role, you will serve as both an advocate and coach for your team, tackling backend challenges, hands on coding and pairing, and enhancing product success in a fast-paced startup environment. Our ideal candidate combines leadership, technical expertise, and enthusiasm to enhance the productivity of the development team. As a technical leader, you'll help establish the team's vision and see it through.

We're looking for someone with a deep understanding of backend engineering with a passion for performance and scale. You should also be strong at identifying and building the right abstractions to support other engineers.

What You'll Do

• Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects
• Collaborate on our technical vision
• Assist and mentor full-stack engineers across different teams while advocating for them
• Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
• Proactively engage with your peers and managers to provide and solicit feedback
• Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility

What You'll Need

• A minimum of 7 years of backend engineering experience preferred
• A minimum of 3 years of technical leadership experience leading and/or managing teams
• Proficiency in Python
• A track record of shipping high-quality products and leading projects at scale
• An ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft

Technologies we use & teach

• Frontend: React, Typescript
• Backend: Python, Django
• Databases: MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse
• Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience with these is a plus, but we know smart people are quick learners!

Compensation/Benefits Package

• Meaningful salary and equity: you're rewarded based on impact. The range for this role is $160,000 to $200,000.

• Work fully remote in Canada

• Note, we are unable to hire within Quebec at this time.

• Flexible work hours

• Health & Dental coverage with Parental Leave top-ups in addition to EI benefits

• Unlimited vacation/PTO: so you can be happy and healthy!

About Hive.co

Hive is an email and SMS marketing CRM used by brands to personalize and automate their campaigns. We pride ourselves on helping brands understand their email and SMS marketing, all while selling more and keeping their customers engaged.

We integrate with tech partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify to let brands act on all their data, so they can easily segment their list in thousands of ways, and send more customized, timely email campaigns that land in inboxes.

We started our company inside a University of Waterloo computer lab in early 2014, graduated from Y Combinator that summer (S14 batch) and have been growing ever since. Originally based in Kitchener, our team is now 100% remote and located all across Canada! We strive to provide an online work environment that allows team members to have a strong work life balance while still feeling connected to their team and Hive's mission.

To learn more about our team check out our About Us page on our website: https://www.hive.co/company