Our Engineering Team

Our Engineering Team owns the code and infrastructure that lets our customers do powerful things with our product, simply and intuitively. We care about delivering the right product iterations quickly - we build minimum viable products, deploy to production multiple times per day, listen to customer feedback, and iterate.

At Hive, we ingest high-volume data in real-time from 20+ integrations (like Ticketmaster and Shopify), we store and query billions of customer data points, and we send 200MM+ email/SMS messages every month to our clients’ customers. We’ve built a growing, profitable business and the scale of technical problems we’re solving is quickly growing too!

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building teams and has a track record of delivering high quality software. It’s an exciting time to join as our Engineering team has doubled in size in the past year. You will be successful in this role if you are able to provide technical guidance and coach on performance while fostering a collaborative work environment.

What you’ll get up to

• Manage our data and integration engineering pods. Coaching and mentoring the team as well as setting and holding a high bar for performance.

• Drive the initiatives and priorities for your teams, working with dependencies across the company

• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Hive’s engineering leadership team

• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with our People team, to join Hive

• Improve our processes and tools to help team be more productive and deliver better outcomes

Who you are

• You’ve spent 3+ years managing an effective engineering team, specializing in data

• You have 5+ years of hands-on experience building high-volume data ingestion and transformation applications

• You’ve worked with web engineering teams and can understand their concepts and technologies

• You’ve seen the inner workings of how software is made by a team on a shared codebase - you can articulate what communication, development processes and tooling you do/don’t find effective and why

• You've thrived while working on a semi or fully-remote team (communicate effectively async, work independently, know when to ask for help, self-manage your time and effort)

• You're a direct, empathetic communicator, who believes that thoughtful feedback is a mandatory input to growth

• You're never done learning - you constantly drive to understand how things work, how you can improve, and how you can have an impact at different levels

Technologies we use & teach

• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Clickhouse

• Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

• Frontend: React, Typescript

• Backend: Python, Django

• Experience with these is a plus, but we know smart people are quick learners!

Nice to haves

Bonus points if you:

• Have 1-3 years of experience leading a team in a larger more scaled environment

• Are able to clearly articulate why you made the intentional decision to go down a management track

Comp/Benefits Package

• Meaningful salary and equity: you're rewarded based on impact

• Work fully remote in Canada: where you’re most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere. We just ask that you have legal work authorization in Canada and unfortunately, we are unable to hire within Quebec at this time.

• Flexible work hours: choose your 9-5 as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive

• Health Insurance: Comprehensive health & dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program

• Open vacation/PTO policy: so you can be happy and healthy!

About Hive

Hive is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers. Our platform powers marketing for 1500+ of the most iconic event, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America. We help our clients sell out their shows and make their events unforgettable - by helping them grow their customer base and personalizing and automating their email, SMS, and ad campaigns.

Hive integrates with 25+ partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify, ingesting rich customer data in real-time. With this data, event marketers can segment their audiences in powerful ways and send timely, customized messages to their customers. Hive was founded in a University of Waterloo computer lab and graduated from Y Combinator in 2014. Today, we’re a remote-first team spread across Canada and the US, building a product and a culture that values clarity, ownership, and real customer impact.

To learn more about our team, check out the About Us and Careers pages on our website.