[Hiring] Senior Software Developer @hive.co

Role Description

At Hive, we’re all about creating moments that matter and helping event marketers connect with their biggest fans. Our platform powers marketing for 1,500+ iconic events, festivals, venues, and promoters across North America. We help them grow their customer base and sell out shows using intelligent, automated, and personalized digital marketing tools.

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 business and the scale of technical problems we’re solving is quickly growing too!

We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about building and shipping software - we want to hear why you're excited about Hive, what impact you want to have, and how we can help you make that happen.

What you’ll get up to:

• Rapidly build new features that users will love, continuously refining them based on feedback.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical spec reviews, technical planning, and architectural decision-making.
• Take responsibility and ownership of projects from start to finish.
• Participate in technical planning and architectural decision-making.
• Find solutions to optimize bottlenecks and general system-wide performance.
• Collaborate with team members on designing scalable, and well-documented web architecture, including APIs and backend systems.
• Work directly with our customer success team to solve customer-impacting problems.

Past Projects:

• Created an integration with Meta ads manager to allow clients to use our platform’s segmentation to create custom audiences on Meta.
• Built a state-based pipeline to send 10MM+ personalized emails and SMS every day.
• Developed a simple UI to let our clients easily query their own customer data.
• Using Kubernetes and Docker, built a task processing system which runs billions of jobs every day.
• Developed a Javascript SDK that other developers use on their websites to pump customer preferences and behavior into Hive.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building highly performant web applications.
• Fuelled by curiosity and thrive on the excitement of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences.
• Able to clearly explain complex things you’ve built to others, identifying tradeoffs you made and the hard problems you had to solve.
• Seen the inner workings of how software is made by a team on a shared codebase.
• Thrived in remote settings, excelling in async communication, independent work, and time management.
• Legally able to work within Canada - this is our only non-negotiable.

Technologies we use & teach

• Frontend: React, Redux, Typescript
• Backend: Python, Django
• Databases: Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Benefits

• Meaningful salary and equity: you're rewarded based on impact.
• The compensation range for this role is $123,600 to $187,900 CAD per year, depending on qualifications and experience.
• New team members typically start between $123,600 - $155,000, based on experience and alignment with the expectations outlined in this posting.
• Work fully remote from the comfort of your home.
• Flexible work hours: minimal meetings and no 9-5.
• Health & Dental coverage with Parental Leave top-ups in addition to EI benefits.
• Unlimited vacation/PTO: so you can be happy and healthy!

Company Description

Hive.co is a marketing platform for event marketers. We help brands personalize and automate their campaigns, using email and SMS, to empower them to sell out so they can focus on making their events unforgettable.

By integrating with ticketing partners like Ticketmaster and e-commerce partners like Shopify, we enable brands to access and act on all their customer data.

We started our company inside a University of Waterloo computer lab in early 2014, graduated from Y Combinator that summer, and have been growing ever since. Originally based in Kitchener, our team is now 100% remote and located all across Canada!