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Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Hive· Hive – Product & Engineering
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Seattle$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer - Backend at Hive (Seattle) focusing on designing, implementing, and maintaining backend systems, APIs, and services for scalable AI-powered solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
  • Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
  • Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
  • Practice test-driven development
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
  • Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
  • Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
  • Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
  • Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience building web applications
  • Successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
  • Delivered scalable backend APIs
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Skills

Required:Backend developmentDistributed systemsREST APIsSecurityTest-driven development

Benefits

  • Health, vision and dental insurance
  • Gym membership
  • Paid vacation per vacation policy
  • Equity grant opportunity
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Hive

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

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