Senior Backend Software Developer, Platform & Services

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Senior Backend Software Development Engineer at Hive designing and building robust backend services to enable marketing platform scalability.

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

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.

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!