Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity through its institutional-grade platform. As an Engineering Lead, you will lead a cross-functional team of engineers, serving as the senior technical leader while guiding the product development process and improving development velocity.
Responsibilities
- Leading a small cross-functional team of engineers, partnering with a product manager and designer to assess priorities, and owning the day-to-day execution of the team's roadmap to consistently deliver high-quality releases on time
- Acting as a hands-on technical leader with strong expertise in one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir
- Owning the software architecture and technical direction across your team’s functional domain
- Championing the adoption of AI technologies and AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering standards
- Maintaining a high standard for code quality, attention to detail, and engineering excellence that inspires the broader team
- Ensuring systems are secure, performant, scalable, and operationally reliable in production environments
- Evaluating technical approaches and partnering with leadership to make informed architectural and product decisions
- Conducting code reviews and ensuring the team ships complete, maintainable, and well-tested features
- Advocating for engineering best practices and continuously improving internal processes and developer workflows
- Supporting the hiring and onboarding of a growing engineering organization
- Mentoring engineers across varying levels of experience to help them grow their technical and professional skills
- Working closely with founders, product leadership, and stakeholders in a fast-paced startup environment
- Adapting quickly to changing priorities and thriving in a rapidly evolving company
Skills
- Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams, typically consisting of 4–6 engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack disciplines
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and team velocity
- Strong expertise building frontend applications with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix
- Experience working with relational databases
- Experience working with Typescript and GraphQL
- Experience with DevOps practices, including infrastructure management and deployments
- Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe
- Experience with Vercel and Next.js
- Understanding of Postgres database design and optimization
- DevOps experience deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes infrastructure using Terraform
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.
- Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees.
- An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members.
- If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy 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 Women’s 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.
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