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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Hive
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/24/2026
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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


Requirements
  • You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications
  • You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
  • You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
  • You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs
  • You have deep experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
  • Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus
  • You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
  • You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates
  • You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action


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