Senior Backend Software Engineer

What We're Looking For

• 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

Bonus Qualifications

• Proven experience scaling complex AWS environments and optimizing performance across the full technology stack during periods of significant growth

• Track record of implementing and improving SLOs and observability solutions for backend services

• Leadership experience in establishing and improving incident management processes

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape reliability practices: help define and scale how reliability is approached at a rapidly growing company

• 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!

About Hive

Hive is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers. Our platform powers marketing for 1500+ of the most iconic event, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America. We help our clients sell out their shows and make their events unforgettable - by helping them grow their customer base and personalizing and automating their email, SMS, and ad campaigns.

Hive integrates with 25+ partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify, ingesting rich customer data in real-time. With this data, event marketers can segment their audiences in powerful ways and send timely, customized messages to their customers. Hive was founded in a University of Waterloo computer lab and graduated from Y Combinator in 2014. Today, we’re a remote-first team spread across Canada and the US, building a product and a culture that values clarity, ownership, and real customer impact.

To learn more about our team, check out the About Us and Careers pages on our website.