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# Developer Experience Engineer at Hiive

- **Company:** Hiive
- **Location:** Vancouver, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiive/ef18ebc7-99f6-4cdc-b75c-5f51b518cfad

## Job description

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 a Developer Experience Engineer at Hiive, you will build the tooling, workflows, and AI-enabled development practices that help every engineer move faster. You will treat Engineering as your customer, identify the highest-friction parts of the software development lifecycle, and ship practical improvements that make development simpler, faster, and more reliable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who loves building for builders and wants to shape how AI becomes part of day-to-day engineering work.

In this role, your responsibilities would include:

- Building internal tools, templates, scripts, and workflows that reduce friction across local development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and code review.
- Leading practical AI adoption across Engineering by evaluating tools, designing usage patterns, creating examples, and helping teams apply AI safely in real delivery work.
- Partnering with product engineers to discover bottlenecks, prioritize the highest-impact improvements, and measure whether tooling changes improve speed, quality, or developer satisfaction.
- Creating and maintain golden paths for common engineering workflows, including new services, environment setup, recurring development tasks, and release processes.
- Improving documentation, onboarding, and self-service support so engineers can solve common workflow problems without interrupting other teams.
- Designing automation that removes repetitive work, reduces manual handoffs, and makes engineering systems easier to operate.
- Contributing production-quality code and collaborate closely with platform, product engineering, security, and data teams.

Required Skills:

- Experience building internal developer tools, platform tooling, engineering productivity systems, CI/CD workflows, or comparable software infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering ability in at least one modern programming language, with enough range to work across scripts, services, APIs, and developer-facing integrations.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, workflow automation, or applying AI to software delivery.
- Ability to turn ambiguous developer pain points into clear problems, lightweight experiments, and shipped tooling improvements.
- Experience with modern development workflows, including Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.
- Clear written communication and documentation habits, especially for internal technical audiences.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with developer portals, service templates, internal platforms, Backstage, or similar self-service tooling.
- Experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, or regulated technology environment.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, containers, cloud platforms, or deployment automation.
- Experience creating internal enablement programs, engineering playbooks, or AI adoption guidelines.

Compensation: Highly competitive compensation commensurate with experience and contribution.

- Vancouver, BC: $160,000-$220,000
- Remote, Canada: $160,000-$215,000
- Remote, USA: $175,000-$225,000 USD

For this role, the estimated total compensation range is listed above. The actual base salary, variable bonus (if applicable), and options grant will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified.

Benefits & Perks:

- 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.
- Vancouver based employees enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our downtown 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.

AI, automated tools, and applicant privacy notice:

As part of our recruitment and hiring process, Hiive may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to assist in screening applications, evaluating candidate qualifications, and supporting interview processes. These tools are designed to support and inform human decision-making and are not used as the sole basis for any employment decision.

We may collect, use, and analyze personal information you provide in connection with your application, including generating insights or inferences to assess job-related qualifications. This information is used for recruitment, evaluation, and compliance purposes in accordance with applicable law.

We take reasonable steps to evaluate and monitor our hiring tools and practices to promote fairness, consistency, and non-discrimination. Where required by applicable law - including in Ontario, Quebec, New York City, Illinois, and California - we conduct or rely on assessments such as bias audits, honor rights related to automated decision-making, and provide additional disclosures on request.

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information and the use of automated processing, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your information, or to receive additional information about our data practices. We honor such rights where required by applicable law.

For accommodation requests or questions about this notice, contact careers@hiive.com.

## About Hiive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hiive is a centralized marketplace for buying and selling pre-IPO stock, enabling private companies and their shareholders to unlock liquidity through transparent, compliant secondary transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A / Venture Round; total funding $8.4M)
- **Headquarters**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial Services – secondary market trading of private company stock.
- Target customers: B2B – VC-backed companies (issuers), their shareholders (sellers), and qualified institutional/individual investors (buyers).
- Mission statement: “To unlock the value of the private market” – empowering participants to discover liquidity, create wealth, and maintain control over their investments.

## Products & Services
- **Hiive Platform**: A SaaS-based marketplace where qualified participants can buy and sell pre-IPO shares. Companies can pre-approve buyers/sellers, set trading ranges and windows, and automate transactions. The platform provides real-time price discovery, fixed and competitive fees, and anonymity until a deal is struck. It also offers market pricing data across thousands of pre-IPO companies, updated hourly.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$8.4M** across two rounds (Series A led by Uncorrelated Ventures in October 2023, and a venture round in June 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Uncorrelated Ventures (lead investor); also works with **>60% of tier-1 venture capital firms** and **>95% of US decacorns** have at least one trade on Hiive.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly transaction volume of **$250M+** (6-month rolling average).
  - **$2B+** in live securities orders.
  - Headcount grew **52.5% year-over-year** to **195 employees** (as of mid-2026).
  - Active job postings: **42** (up 55.6% year-over-year, though down 14.3% month-over-month).
  - Expanding into institutional sales, API platform, and product design roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Centralized marketplace**: Direct access to a deep pool of verified buyers and sellers, eliminating the need for multiple brokers.
- **Automation & compliance**: Companies can automate transactions, set price/volume parameters, and approve all counterparties, all within a regulated venue.
- **Real-time pricing data**: Free, hourly-updated market pricing for thousands of pre-IPO companies – a key differentiator in an otherwise opaque market.
- **Scale & trust**: Already used by the majority of US decacorns and tier-1 VCs, providing network effects and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the platform**: Growing transaction volumes and expanding into new geographies (remote-friendly roles across Canada and the US).
- **Product development**: Building an API platform for seamless integration, enhancing data analytics, and improving the user experience for issuers, buyers, and sellers.
- **Institutional expansion**: Hiring a VP of Investments, Director of Institutional Sales, and corporate development roles to deepen relationships with large investors and funds.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Entrepreneurial, agile, and innovative environment with a small, collaborative team. Core values include excellence, customer-centricity, curiosity, urgency, and intensity.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly. Vancouver HQ is the primary hub, but many roles are open to remote candidates across Canada and the US. Commuter benefit ($20/day) for in-office days.
- **Benefits**:
  - 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, plus a health spending account.
  - Competitive salary and stock options (employee stock option plan).
  - Relocation and immigration support for moves to Vancouver.
  - Bi-weekly catered lunches, Friday bar, beach days, team workouts, annual summer/holiday parties, and two all-team retreats per year.
  - Professional growth opportunities: advancement into management/leadership, cross-disciplinary exposure.
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on building the world’s leading private market platform; roles include Engineering Lead, Principal Product Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and Security Engineer.

## Sources
1. [hiive.com](https://www.hiive.com/)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiive](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hiive)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/hiive)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiive)

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