Principal Software Engineer

Named #4 startup in Canada for 2024, Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies🚀. Thanks to our industry-leading technology and best-in-class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest-growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by US venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high-performing team.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be a leader on the engineering team, responsible for aligning a team of engineers to deliver on a specific mission as the senior-most technician on your team. You will be a primary, hands-on contributor to the product development process. You will direct the efforts of engineers on your team and level their skills. You will work directly with product and engineering leadership to deliver core features of our application, create a robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Have a proven track record of leading small cross-functional teams of engineers to deliver high-quality releases on time.

• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir.

• Be prepared to own the software architecture top-down across their team’s functional area.

• Have a consistent attention to detail in their work that inspires others to ship better code.

• Have advanced knowledge of the security, performance, and operational requirements of running code in a production environment.

• Evaluating possible technical implementations and consulting with leadership on decision making.

• Conducting code reviews and ensure the team is shipping complete features and producing quality code.

• Advocating for best practices and continually iterate on internal processes to empower the engineering team to produce top-notch work.

• Assisting in the hiring process of a growing engineering team.

• Investing in mentoring to help the rest of the team grow their skills.

• Be comfortable working in a small company including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.

• Adapting well to a quickly moving environment.

Required Experience:

• Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams. Our teams are typically between 4-6 engineers, with a mix of seniority between frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers.

• Substantial expertise building frontend with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.

• Previous experience working with relational databases.

• Previous experience working with Typescript and GraphQL.

• Previous experience working with DevOps (infrastructure and deployments).

Preferable Experience:

• Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.

• Experience with Vercel and Next.js.

• Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.

• DevOps know-how, specifically deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes with Terraform.

Compensation, Benefits & Perks: 

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.

• A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.