Senior Backend Engineer, Platform & Services

Company: Hive.co

About the Company: Hive.co is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers, powering marketing for 1,500+ iconic events, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America. They send 40M+ emails and SMS per month, process billions of customer data points, and integrate in real time with Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, Shopify, and 20+ other platforms. Founded in 2014 inside a University of Waterloo computer lab; graduated from Y Combinator. Fully remote, Canada-based team.

Job Category: Software Engineering / Backend / Data Engineering

Contract Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location: Remote — Canada only (legal Canadian work authorization required; Quebec excluded)

Salary: CAD $123,600–$187,900/year depending on qualifications

Application Link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/538c47f9-d008-49b7-b0d4-583a8e43a18d

Job Description: You'll own the core services and data pipelines that everything else at Hive is built on — including high-throughput ingestion, real-time integrations, and the foundational layer under 200M+ messages per month. This is a deeply technical role for a senior engineer who takes full ownership of platform reliability and architectural direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the core backend services and data pipelines powering Hive's high-volume marketing platform
• Build and maintain systems that ingest real-time data from 20+ integrations including Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and Shopify
• Design and implement high-throughput, reliable event-driven processing using Kubernetes and Docker for billions of jobs daily
• Architect scalable data query systems capable of interrogating billions of customer data points in seconds
• Contribute to cross-company platform engineering initiatives and engineering leadership direction
• Maintain high observability and reliability standards across core services

Requirements:

• 7+ years backend engineering experience with strong platform/infrastructure background
• Experience with high-throughput, event-driven systems and real-time integrations
• Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure expertise
• Experience designing and operating systems handling billions of data points
• Legal Canadian work authorization (not available in Quebec)
• Proven comfort working fully remote with async communication

Benefits: Meaningful salary and equity rewarded on impact, fully remote Canada-wide, flexible work hours, comprehensive health and dental with parental leave top-up, unlimited/open PTO policy.