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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Hive· Hive – Product & Engineering
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Seattle, WA$160k - $250kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Senior backend-focused role at Hive, responsible for designing and building core services, REST APIs, and distributed systems at scale, with emphasis on code quality, security, and collaboration.

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
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications
  • Experience or strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
  • Designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
  • Experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs
  • Deep experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
  • Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus
  • Strong belief in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
  • Attention to detail and a passion for correctness
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with teammates
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Skills

Required:Node.jsREST APIsDistributed systems / microservicesRelational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)Security and OWASP practices

Benefits

  • health, vision and dental insurance
  • gym membership
  • paid vacation in accordance with the Company's vacation policy
  • equity grant potential via stock options
Last updated Jul 29, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Hive

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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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