Senior Backend Engineer – Routing and Optimisation

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🕒 September 3, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• At HIVED, we’re steamrolling forward as one of Europe’s fastest growing startups, and our momentum shows no signs of slowing. • HIVED is a climate and logistics start-up building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale, powered by a 100% electric fleet. • As part of HIVED’s Routing Squad, you’ll tackle some of the most intellectually demanding challenges in computer science – building systems that power optimisation and forecasting at scale, enabling efficient route planning and supply-demand matching. • Design and implement distributed systems for routing, supply-demand matching, and other core logistics challenges. • Work closely with optimisation engineers, data scientists, and analysts to integrate algorithms and solvers into production. • Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches to solve complex business problems. • Partner with product and operational stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions. • Contribute to forecasting and planning systems that power strategic and tactical decisions across the business. • Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and robustness of our routing and optimisation stack.

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience architecting and building distributed systems. • Proven ability to translate complex requirements into production-grade solutions with measurable business impact. • Solid coding skills (Python or Golang preferred, though experience in other languages like Java or C++ is also valued). • Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and event-driven architectures. • Curiosity, creativity, and a strong sense of ownership – you enjoy solving open-ended problems and shipping solutions that matter.

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays • Wellbeing initiatives, including 3 wellbeing days in addition to holiday allowance • Subsidised Private Medical Insurance including dental and vision • Weekly team lunch and regular company socials • MacBook Air or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference) • Hybrid working set-up with in-person time expected at both our Shoreditch office and North Woolwich based depot • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy • Cycle to work scheme • Dog friendly office