Principal Product 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 aPrincipal Product Engineer you will be a leader on the engineering team responsible for aligning a team of engineers to deliver on a specific mission as the senior-most technician on your team. You will be a primary hands-on contributor to the product development process. You will leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance development velocity code quality and decision-making. You will direct the efforts of engineers on your team and level their skills. You will work directly with product and engineering leadership to deliver core features of our application create a robust scalable and secure infrastructure and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role your responsibilities would include:

• Have a proven track record of leading small cross-functional teams of engineers to deliver high-quality releases on time.

• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of one or more of Typescript React and Elixir.

• Be prepared to own the software architecture top-down across their teams functional area.

• Champion the adoption of AI technologies in the development lifecycle to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering standards.

• Have a consistent attention to detail in their work that inspires others to ship better code.

• Have advanced knowledge of the security performance and operational requirements of running code in a production environment.

• Evaluating possible technical implementations and consulting with leadership on decision making.

• Conducting code reviews and ensure the team is shipping complete features and producing quality code.

• Advocating for best practices and continually iterate on internal processes to empower the engineering team to produce top-notch work.

• Assisting in the hiring process of a growing engineering team.

• Investing in mentoring to help the rest of the team grow their skills.

• Be comfortable working in a small company including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.

• Adapting well to a quickly moving environment.

Required Experience:

• Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams. Our teams are typically between 4-6 engineers with a mix of seniority between frontend backend and full-stack engineers.

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering productivity code quality and team velocity.

• Substantial expertise building frontend with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.

• Previous experience working with relational databases.

• Previous experience working with Typescript and GraphQL.

• Previous experience working with DevOps (infrastructure and deployments).

Preferable Experience:

• Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.

• Experience with Vercel and .

• Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.

• DevOps know-how specifically deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes with Terraform.

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 and dental premiums a health and personal spending account.

• 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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