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title: 'Frontend Engineer at Hive'
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# Frontend Engineer at Hive

- **Company:** Hive
- **Location:** Delhi, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2017-11-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hive/49c64df4-209b-4334-8f98-7e1dc6440ed1

## Job description

## About Hive

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions for content understanding, trusted by the world’s largest, fastest growing, and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software applications powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, enabling breakthrough use cases across industries. Together, Hive’s solutions are transforming content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.

Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 250 employees globally in our San Francisco, Seattle, and Delhi offices. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!

Frontend Engineer

Frontend Engineers are an essential part of the Hive Data and Hive Enterprise products. Working closely with designers, product owners, and other engineers, we implement the user interfaces that define our core platforms. We leverage the latest web technologies to deliver innovative interfaces and rich user experiences. The team is small and fast moving, and you will be expected to iterate quickly and make software design decisions on product features. As a front-end engineer at Hive, your breadth of skills paired with our bottom-up product process will give you as much autonomy and responsibility as you can handle. We are looking for technically-strong teammates who are passionate about frontend technologies and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

## Responsibilities

- Build secure custom user interfaces using React (JavaScript)
- Actively participate in product decisions and coordinate with design and product teams to develop new features focused on user experience
- Architect efficient, scalable, and extensible front-end components and abstractions
- Analyze and optimize UI application code for efficiency and performance
- Look for opportunities to improve team efficiency and work with your team to implement improvements
- Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

## Requirements

- You have 2+ year of experience working in web development
- You have in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
- You have a strong grasp of React and Redux (or similar frameworks) and concepts behind them
- You have demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
- You have experience working with 3rd party APIs and libraries
- You are eager to learn new technologies and share your knowledge with your teammates
- You are receptive to feedback and always looking for opportunities to sharpen your skills
- You have excellent communication skills and experience in collaborative environments
- You write understandable, testable code with an eye towards maintainability and scalability

## Who We Are

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Hive, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.

Thank you for your interest in Hive and we hope to meet you soon!

## About Hive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hive provides cloud-based AI models and APIs to understand, search, and generate content for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $50M raised in April 2021 at a $2B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (additional offices in Seattle, USA and New Delhi/Gurgaon, India)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Kevin Guo (CEO) and Dmitriy Karpman (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (content understanding, moderation, brand protection, generative AI)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large digital platforms, media companies, brands, and risk/identity management organizations
- **Mission**: To empower developers with best-in-class, pre-trained AI models and turnkey software for critical business needs.

## Products & Services
- **[Content Moderation APIs](https://thehive.ai/)**: Pre-trained models to detect NSFW, hate speech, violence, CSAM, and other harmful content across images, video, text, and audio.
- **[Brand Protection & Sponsorship Measurement](https://thehive.ai/)**: AI-driven tools to measure sponsorship exposure, optimize ad targeting, and protect brand safety across platforms.
- **[Search & Identification](https://thehive.ai/)**: Next-generation search capabilities for datasets including web images, intellectual property, and customer-provided content.
- **[Generative AI](https://thehive.ai/)**: Proprietary and open-source models to generate text, image, video, and audio content.
- **Turnkey Software**: Ready-to-use applications powered by Hive’s proprietary models for content moderation, contextual ad targeting, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2B valuation as of Series D (April 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $12.5M (estimated, per LinkedIn); Total Funding of $155.7M across 6 rounds (Seed, Series A, B, C, D)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, 8VC, Tomales Bay Capital, Glynn Capital
- **Growth Signals**: API volume increased by more than 10x over the past 2 years; headcount grew 7.3% YoY to 287 employees; serves billions of customer API requests monthly; trusted by hundreds of the world’s largest organizations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Broad, pre-trained model portfolio**: Covers video, image, text, and audio with industry-leading accuracy.
- **Scale and reliability**: Billions of API requests per month, proven at enterprise scale.
- **End-to-end offering**: APIs for developers plus turnkey software for non-technical teams.
- **Strong backing and valuation**: $2B valuation from top-tier venture firms signals market confidence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling infrastructure**: Increasing serving capacity to handle continued API volume growth.
- **Expanding client base**: Targeting large enterprises in media, technology, risk management, and advertising.
- **Deepening generative AI capabilities**: Investing in proprietary models for content generation alongside understanding/search.

## Why Work Here
- **Fast growth environment**: API volume has 10x’d in two years, offering opportunities for impact and career acceleration.
- **Small, high-impact teams**: Employees have direct influence on technical and organizational systems.
- **Competitive compensation**: Base salary plus heavy focus on equity-based compensation for long-term alignment.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health, dental, vision insurance; gym membership; on-site roles in San Francisco and Seattle (with an office in New Delhi).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building models, increasing serving capacity, and solving hard scaling challenges. On-site presence required for many roles.
- **Diverse workforce**: Employees across 15 countries; strong representation from India and US; top talent sourced from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Carnegie Mellon.

## Sources
1. [thehive.ai/careers](https://thehive.ai/careers)
2. [thehive.ai/about-us](https://thehive.ai/about-us)
3. [thehive.ai](https://thehive.ai/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/hiveai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiveai)
5. [jobs.lever.co/hive](https://jobs.lever.co/hive)

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