Engineering Lead

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 Canada’s 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 https://www.hiive.com/careers to see how you can grow with us!

As an Engineering Lead, you will lead a cross-functional team of engineers to deliver on a specific product mission while serving as the senior technical leader for your team’s functional area. You will be a hands-on contributor to the product development process, leveraging AI tools and modern engineering practices to improve development velocity, code quality, and technical decision-making. You will guide and mentor engineers, collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership, and help shape a scalable, secure, and high-performing platform alongside a strong engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

• Leading a small cross-functional team of engineers, partnering with a product manager and designer to assess priorities, and owning the day-to-day execution of the team's roadmap to consistently deliver high-quality releases on time.

• Acting as a hands-on technical leader with strong expertise in one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir.

• Owning the software architecture and technical direction across your team’s functional domain.

• Championing the adoption of AI technologies and AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering standards.

• Maintaining a high standard for code quality, attention to detail, and engineering excellence that inspires the broader team.

• Ensuring systems are secure, performant, scalable, and operationally reliable in production environments.

• Evaluating technical approaches and partnering with leadership to make informed architectural and product decisions.

• Conducting code reviews and ensuring the team ships complete, maintainable, and well-tested features.

• Advocating for engineering best practices and continuously improving internal processes and developer workflows.

• Supporting the hiring and onboarding of a growing engineering organization.

• Mentoring engineers across varying levels of experience to help them grow their technical and professional skills.

• Working closely with founders, product leadership, and stakeholders in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Adapting quickly to changing priorities and thriving in a rapidly evolving company.

Required Experience:

• Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams, typically consisting of 4–6 engineers across frontend, backend, and full-stack disciplines.

• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and team velocity.

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

• Experience working with relational databases.

• Experience working with Typescript and GraphQL.

• Experience with DevOps practices, including infrastructure management and deployments.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.

• Experience with Vercel and Next.js.

• Understanding of Postgres database design and optimization.

• DevOps experience deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes infrastructure using 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 & 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 Women’s 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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