Lead Engineer – Routing

🕒 April 29

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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HIVED

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🛍️ eCommerce

🚗 Transport

eCommerce • Transport • Logistics

HIVED is a parcel delivery network focused on enhancing the delivery experience for leading retail brands. With a commitment to reliability and customer satisfaction, HIVED aims to provide efficient, quick, and seamless delivery services, leveraging a 100% electric fleet for sustainable operations. Their innovative technology enables live tracking, proactive communication, and a customer-centric approach, ensuring each delivery meets the expectations of end-users effectively.

📋 Description

• Lead the Routing Squad across technical strategy, delivery, team leadership, and execution of squad goals. • Own the technical direction for systems supporting routing optimisation, supply-demand matching, parcel distribution, forecasting, and planning. • Translate business priorities and operational needs into clear technical strategy, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic execution plans. • Guide architecture and system design for scalable, reliable, production-grade optimisation and planning systems. • Work closely with optimisation engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, analysts, product, and operational stakeholders to turn complex problems into shipped solutions. • Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches across routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, and distributed systems. • Set and uphold a high engineering bar through technical reviews, architectural guidance, mentoring, and accountability for maintainable software. • Manage, coach, and develop engineers in the squad, including hiring, performance management, development planning, and resourcing. • Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, high performance, and continuous learning within the team.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including backend or distributed systems development. • Experience leading engineers, either as a people manager or as a senior technical leader with meaningful ownership over team delivery. • Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous business or operational problems into robust technical solutions. • Strong system design and architectural skills in distributed, production-grade environments. • An appetite for hard optimisation problems — especially routing, scheduling, forecasting, supply-demand matching, or other constraint-heavy domains. • Strong analytical thinking and the ability to combine technical depth with practical judgement. • A track record of setting high engineering standards and helping teams consistently meet them. • Experience working cross-functionally with product, operations, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership. • Strong ownership mindset: you care about the strategy, the system, the team, and the real-world outcome.

🏖️ Benefits

• Dynamic hybrid 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 • 1 Birthday Day Off + 2 Tenure-Based Additional Days Off • Subsidised Private Medical Insurance including dental, vision & mental health therapy • Bi-annual performance reviews and tailored development plans • Competitive salary + EMI options scheme • Annual compensation review • Team lunch provided once a week • Quarterly team socials and annual sports day (HIVED Olympics) • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy as day 1 right • Community volunteer days • Cycle to work scheme • Dog friendly office and depots • MacBook Air or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference)