Senior Backend Software Engineer, Hive

• We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale.
• Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code
• You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications
• You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
• You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs
• You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Desirable

• Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
• Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
• Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
• Practice test-driven development
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
• Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

• Equity
• Catered meals
• Comprehensive insurance
• Corporate gym membership

Total funding: $142.2m

Hive is an AI-as-a-service platform that empowers companies to make smarter decisions through intelligent automation. It is best known for its AI-powered image recognition system. It analyzes images of brands, products and celebrities that allow companies to understand when, where and how their assets are seen.