Senior Backend Engineer
Mar 14, 2025
About HIVED
At HIVED were steamrolling forward as one of Europes fastest growing startups and our momentum shows no signs of slowing.
Based in London we are a climate and logistics startup building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale powered by a 100% electric fleet. In an evergrowing industry where unreliable service has long been the norm HIVED has been built from the groundup to meet the demands of modern consumers and disrupt parcel delivery.
A tech company at heart our talent and technology is laserfocused on delivering the best possible delivery experience for endcustomers and meeting the needs of our retail partners. From our drivers to our data engineers we are constantly working to improve this customer experience that makes us deliver better.
Already trusted by leading international brands such as Zara Uniqlo ASOS Nespresso and more we are solidifying our position as the leaders in Europe to tackle this growing market.
Our tightknit team is made up of exRevolut Bain HelloFresh ASOS Apple and Google employees and we are backed by some of Europes leading investors and VCs in climatetech logistics and mobility including Planet A Ventures Maersk Growth Pale Blue Dot VC Eka Ventures and the British government. Were passionate about driving innovation and redefining the future of delivery.
Role Overview
We are looking for a passionate and versatile backend engineer to work on the services that power HIVEDs emissionfree parcel delivery network. The problems your team is solving cover complex routing and optimisation challenges building intelligent address and parcel locating solutions external integrations powering our customer facing apps with (live) tracking data and more. We reimagine parcel delivery from scratch built on a modern tech stack with sustainability flexibility and scale at the core.
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will be an integral part of a crossfunctional team responsible for the full software development life cycle from discovery design and deployment to monitoring production systems. You will have tangible impact on growing HIVEDs software backend in a rapid but sustainable fashion. HIVED will depend on you to ensure that our backend is reliable and maintainable for both internal and external users. You solve problems in a creative but pragmatic fashion and always with a positive attitude.
Our engineers hold a large amount of ownership and autonomy and are expected to build an indepth understanding of the solutions they are working on across the entire stack.
Responsibilities
- Design implement and maintain a scalable backend architecture to power HIVEDs internal operations and externally facing apps and integrations.
- Plan and lead projects along with other software engineers product managers and end users.
- Improve and scale engineering processes tools and standards.
- Maintain current systems and infrastructure including integrations with 3rd party services.
- Monitor and optimise service performance.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role with 5 years of experience.
- Selfdirected learning who can quickly gain an operational knowledge of new technology quickly and independently.
- Familiarity with a range of technologies databases and cloud stacks (AWS) and previous experience with Infrastructure as Code.
- Clear and direct communicator with great organisational skills.
- Strong collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders teamplayer.
- Positive and solutionoriented mindset.
Technologies we use
- Golang
- AWS (Lambda SQS EventBridge DynamoDB RDS CDK OpenSearch)
- Github Github Actions
- Prometheus Grafana
- Eventdriven architecture and domaindriven design
How we reward our team
- Dynamic working environment with a diverse and driven team
- 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays
- Wellbeing initiatives including 3 wellbeing days in addition to holiday allowance
- Subsidised private medical insurance including dental and vision
- Weekly team lunch and regular company socials
- MacBook Air or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference)
- Hybrid working setup with inperson time expected at both our Shoreditch office and North Woolwich based depot
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy
- Cycle to work scheme
- Dog friendly office
- Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment with progression opportunities based on success in the role
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