Senior Software Engineer - Backend (f/m/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin Office (HQ)

The position

At Hive, we're building the leading operations platform for independent commerce and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team.

Your work will impact hundreds of commerce brands and millions of end customers across our merchant-facing product (“Hive App”), our end customer offering (“Customer Portal” and “Delivery Promise”), and our Warehouse Management Software.

What you'll be doing:

Shipping high-quality product: In the end, what matters is what our customers and internal users are using on a day-to-day basis
Lead the technical design, development, and maintenance of functionality on the backend, ensuring we’re building a high quality product
Work closely with product managers, leads, and fellow engineers to translate product requirements into technical specifications, developing new functionality and enhancing the existing product(s)
Identify and address performance bottlenecks, design and implement scalable solutions that can handle increasing user demands and data volumes, ensure sustained performance of our application code for highly performant operations
Participate in cross-team discussions shaping the technical direction of our technical stack
Additionally, as a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have the chance to shape the product and the team on a higher level by owning features end-to-end, mentoring, and pairing with younger engineers.

Your profile

We know - sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit!

You’ve done this before. Multiple times. Ideally, you've written a lot of Ruby code before, building complex applications and systems that just work. We’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it — this will probably mean that you've worked as a Software Engineer for 5+ years
Builder at heart. Creating from scratch excites you. Figuring out how to solve problems is one of your favorite activities. Building, scaling, and rapidly iterating upon the software is what keeps you going
You care about quality. You champion and deliver rigorously tested, documented, and maintainable code — you know how much time it'll save you down the line
You care about the business impact. Perfect software is not the only thing — you care about the business impact of your products, and make trade-offs when necessary

Bonus points:

You bring along deep knowledge of OOP and Test-Driven-Development
Experience in building Warehouse Management Software (WMS)

Our stack:

Ruby on Rails on the backend. Our backend services are all written in Ruby — it allowed us to get going and keep iterating quickly, our infra is all managed via AWS
React + TypeScript on the frontend. Our frontend applications are written in React and TypeScript, and we use styled-components for styling
We work with modern tooling. Code is hosted on GitHub, error reporting handled in Sentry, Vercel for hosting and deploying our frontend services and AWS for the backend infrastructure, Linear used for issue tracking, we design in Figma, analyze with Segment and June.so, have Notion as our internal wiki, and use Slack for internal communication. Our marketing websites are built with Webflow.

Our offering

Join the Hive! You’ll work with a highly driven team of exceptional and experienced professionals across all domains. Our team members have backgrounds at companies like Amazon, Shopify, Google, Trade Republic, Flink, McKinsey, Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, and DHL. We foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and empowerment, with a focus on constructive feedback in a positive and inspiring work environment.
Make an impact. Join a young company with an entrepreneurial culture operating at lightning speed — we want you to grow with us
You will be valued. We offer attractive compensation, including virtual employee stock options for all full-time team members plus your choice of hardware according to your preference
We support your well-being. Opportunity for a sabbatical after three years with us, alongside a dedicated monthly wellness and productivity budget.
We will get you set up. Operating system and hardware of your choice, additional tech equipment that you need, screens, you name it — we want to enable you to do your best work
There's more! Enjoy flexible working hours, free drinks and snacks in our office in Berlin, Paris, Milan, London & Madrid and join regular team events such as off-sites and workcations

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About us

We make better commerce operations for everyone.
Hive’s mission is to make commerce operations better - for brands, consumers and ops partners. Hive seamlessly combines powerful technology with a network of leading operations providers, saving commerce brands on average 17% on costs and generating up to 24% revenue uplift. All-in-one, through our Hive App. The Hive ecosystem spans the full operational chain. Started just in 2020, Hive already works with hundreds of the leading brands across Europe such as HOLY, mybacs and Inkster and has become the leading operations platform in Europe. Backed by acclaimed global investors including Tiger Global, Earlybird, Picus Capital, we are rapidly expanding our pan-European network with our newly opened fulfillment centers and offices in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid and London.

At Hive, we believe fostering diversity in every team makes us a stronger company overall. We do not discriminate based on religion, skin color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We strive to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels encouraged to be their true self and to grow professionally.

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Thanks for your interest in Hive!
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