Senior Backend Engineer

About HIVED 📦

At HIVED, we’re steamrolling forward as one of Europe’s fastest growing startups, and our momentum shows no signs of slowing.

Based in London, we are a climate and logistics start-up building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale, powered by a 100% electric fleet. In an ever-growing industry where unreliable service has long been the norm, HIVED has been built from the ground-up to meet the demands of modern consumers and disrupt parcel delivery.

A tech company at heart, our talent and technology is laser-focused on delivering the best possible delivery experience for end-customers 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 tight-knit team is made up of ex-Revolut, Bain, HelloFresh, ASOS, Apple and Google employees, and we are backed by some of Europe’s leading investors and VCs in climate-tech, logistics and mobility including Planet A Ventures, Maersk Growth, Pale Blue Dot VC, Eka Ventures and the British government. We’re passionate about driving innovation and redefining the future of delivery.

Role Overview 📝

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer passionate about creating the platform that powers HIVED’s emission-free parcel delivery network.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be an integral part of the team, responsible for the full software development lifecycle—from discovery and design, to deployment and monitoring. You will have tangible impact on growing HIVED's 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 will solve problems in a creative but pragmatic fashion, and always with a positive attitude.

You’ll be embedded in a cross-functional team, collaborating directly with other software engineers, product managers and UX designers. 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable backend architecture to power HIVED’s internal operations.
• Plan and lead projects along with other software engineers, product managers and end users.
• Maintain and optimise existing infrastructure, including integrations with third-party services.
• Shape the engineering culture at HIVED by scaling processes, tools, and standards, while sharing knowledge with junior team members.
• Participate in the on-call rota, ensuring system reliability.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Backend Engineer or similar role, with 5+ years of experience.
• Skilled at writing clean, performant and testable code in typed languages.
• Experience in architecting, designing, and building distributed systems.
• Familiarity with a range of technologies, databases and cloud stacks (AWS) and previous experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.

Technologies we use 💻

• Golang
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, RDS, CDK, OpenSearch)
• Github, Github Actions
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Event-driven architecture and domain-driven design

How we reward our team 🎁

• Dynamic working environment with a diverse and driven team
• Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment, with progression opportunities based on success in the role
• 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 or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference)
• Hybrid working set-up with in-person time expected at both our Shoreditch office and North Woolwich based depot
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy
• Cycle to work scheme
• Dog friendly office