Mid-Level Backend Engineer – Driver Squad

🕒 5 days ago

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Ship features that matter. Take defined features from idea to live, breaking down the problem, weighing the trade-offs, and helping the squad prioritise by impact • Write code you're proud of. Clean, tested, well-documented, and built to scale, the kind of code the whole team can pick up and run with • Raise the bar together. Dive into code reviews as both author and reviewer, and spot improvements within the squad's scope before they become problems • Partner, don't just build. Work shoulder to shoulder with Product, UX, and Operations, let real data guide your calls, and share what you learn with the wider engineering team • Own it in production. Deploy, monitor, and once you're settled in, join the on-call rota to keep things humming

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related STEM field (or equivalent practical experience) • 3+ years of backend software engineering experience, including exposure to distributed systems • Proficiency in at least one typed backend language, with the ability to ramp up quickly on HIVED's stack • Experience designing, building, and running production services on a major cloud platform (AWS preferred) • Experience with relational databases and Infrastructure as Code • Strong collaboration and written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to work across disciplines • Nice to have: Working knowledge of Go, TypeScript, and AWS • Exposure to logistics, mobility or operational-domain systems • Evidence of self-directed learning, such as personal projects or open source contributions

🏖️ 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)