About the role

Developer Experience Engineer building AI-enabled tooling and workflows for Hiive’s private-market liquidity platform. Reducing engineering friction across development, deployment, observability, and code review.

Responsibilities

Build internal tools, templates, scripts, and workflows that reduce friction across local development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and code review
Lead practical AI adoption across Engineering by evaluating tools, designing usage patterns, creating examples, and helping teams apply AI safely in real delivery work
Partner with product engineers to discover bottlenecks, prioritize high-impact improvements, and measure effects on speed, quality, and developer satisfaction
Create and maintain golden paths for common engineering workflows, including new services, environment setup, recurring development tasks, and release processes
Improve documentation, onboarding, and self-service support
Design automation that removes repetitive work, reduces manual handoffs, and simplifies engineering systems
Contribute production-quality code and collaborate with platform, product engineering, security, and data teams

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 range 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 for internal technical audiences
Preferred: experience with developer portals, service templates, internal platforms, Backstage, or similar self-service tooling
Preferred: experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, or regulated technology environment
Preferred: familiarity with infrastructure as code, containers, cloud platforms, or deployment automation
Preferred: experience creating internal enablement programs, engineering playbooks, or AI adoption guidelines

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 for US-based team members
Dedicated desk in the Vancouver, BC HQ
Fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks
Onsite gym
Rooftop amenity
$20-per-day commuter benefit for every day worked in the Vancouver HQ
Bi-weekly catered lunches
Bi-weekly “Friday bar”
Team workouts
Annual summer party
Holiday party
Two “onsite” all-team retreats each year
Semi-annual team-building events
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