Developer Experience Engineer

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform Hiive brings together buyers sellers and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed pre-IPO companies introducing efficiency transparency and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canadas fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors Hiive is profitable well-capitalized and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

Interested in learning more about life at Hiive Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

As a Developer Experience Engineer at Hiive you will build the tooling workflows and AI-enabled development practices that help every engineer move faster. You will treat Engineering as your customer identify the highest-friction parts of the software development lifecycle and ship practical improvements that make development simpler faster and more reliable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who loves building for builders and wants to shape how AI becomes part of day-to-day engineering work.

In this role your responsibilities would include:

• Building internal tools templates scripts and workflows that reduce friction across local development testing CI/CD deployment observability and code review.

• Leading practical AI adoption across Engineering by evaluating tools designing usage patterns creating examples and helping teams apply AI safely in real delivery work.

• Partnering with product engineers to discover bottlenecks prioritize the highest-impact improvements and measure whether tooling changes improve speed quality or developer satisfaction.

• Creating and maintain golden paths for common engineering workflows including new services environment setup recurring development tasks and release processes.

• Improving documentation onboarding and self-service support so engineers can solve common workflow problems without interrupting other teams.

• Designing automation that removes repetitive work reduces manual handoffs and makes engineering systems easier to operate.

• Contributing production-quality code and collaborate closely with platform product engineering security and data teams.

Required Skills:

• Experience building internal developer tools platform tooling engineering productivity systems CI/CD workflows or comparable software infrastructure.

• Strong software engineering ability in at least one modern programming language with enough range to work across scripts services APIs and developer-facing integrations.

• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools coding agents workflow automation or applying AI to software delivery.

• Ability to turn ambiguous developer pain points into clear problems lightweight experiments and shipped tooling improvements.

• Experience with modern development workflows including Git code review automated testing CI/CD observability and production operations.

• Clear written communication and documentation habits especially for internal technical audiences.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with developer portals service templates internal platforms Backstage or similar self-service tooling.

• Experience in a high-growth fintech marketplace or regulated technology environment.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code containers cloud platforms or deployment automation.

• Experience creating internal enablement programs engineering playbooks or AI adoption guidelines.

Compensation Benefits & Perks:

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.

• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.

• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members).

• If you are based in Vancouver enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver BC HQ in the heart of downtown with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks an onsite gym and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.

• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.

• An engaging social calendar including bi-weekly catered lunches bi-weekly Friday bar team workouts annual summer party and holiday party two onsite all-team retreats each year semi-annual team-building events and Hiive Womens Network events.

• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.

• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.

• Sponsorship immigration and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.

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