About HIVED
HIVED is one of Europe's fastest growing startups, building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale. Powered by a 100% electric fleet, we deliver experience to high profile brands such as John Lewis, Nespresso, Uniqlo, and H&M. Our team includes talent from Revolut, DeepMind, Bain, HelloFresh, ASOS, Apple, and Google.
Role Overview
We're looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to build the platform behind HIVED's electric parcel delivery network. You'll join the Customer Experience (CX) Squad-a cross functional team of engineers, product managers, and designers focused on improving parcel delivery for all stakeholders.
What you'll be doing
- Build and ship features for our recipient facing products such as the live tracking page and real time delivery updates used by thousands of customers daily.
- Develop integrations that enable senders-from small shops to large enterprises-to work with HIVED, ensuring robust reliability for day to day operations.
- Take tasks from idea to production: writing code, tests, and monitoring what you ship.
- Participate in code reviews as both author and reviewer, and proactively identify improvements within the squad's scope.
- Work closely with Product and UX stakeholders, using quantitative and qualitative signals to guide decisions, measure impact, and share learnings with the squad.
What we're looking for
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, STEM field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in writing clean, performant, and testable code in a typed language (we use Go).
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team.
- Highly motivated and hungry to learn, picking up new technologies quickly and improving your craft.
- A bias toward shipping: you'd rather get something working and improve it than spend weeks on perfection.
- Care about user experience and customer delight, ensuring the things you build feel genuinely good to use.
Nice to have
- Experience with building distributed systems and working with cloud platforms (AWS).
- Familiarity with databases, cloud stacks, and Infrastructure as Code.
- A side project, open source contribution, or showcase of work you're proud of.
Technologies we use
- Golang, Typescript
- GitHub, Grafana
- Postgres, DynamoDB
- AWS (Lambda, SQS, CDK)
- React, Next.js
- Claude Code
How we reward our team
- Dynamic hybrid working environment with a diverse and driven team.
- Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment, with progression opportunities based on success in the role.
- 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays.
- 1 Birthday Day Off + 2 Tenure Based Additional Days Off.
- Subsidised private medical insurance including dental, vision and mental health therapy.
- Bi annual performance reviews and tailored development plans.
- Competitive salary plus EMI option scheme.
- Annual compensation review.
- Team lunch provided once a week.
- Quarterly team socials and annual sports day.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy as day 1 right.
- Community volunteer days.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Dog friendly office and depots.
- MacBook Air or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference).