Senior Backend Engineer, Routing

🕒 September 11, 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

• 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 • Collaborate within a cross-functional team of engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to build production-grade optimisation systems that are robust, scalable, and deeply integrated into HIVED’s operations

🎯 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 • Experience with backend languages and infrastructure: Python, Go, AWS, CDK (TypeScript), Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB • Familiarity with data tooling and observability: GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Looker Studio, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Prometheus • Experience integrating optimisation algorithms and solvers into production systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Dynamic 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 • 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