Senior Software Engineer (Elixir)

Job Responsibility:

Hiive is a fintech/marketplace startup connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. Thanks to our industry leading technology and our best in class capital markets team, we are home to the fastest growing marketplace for the stock of “unicorns” on the planet. As a profitable and rapidly growing business backed by tier one venture capital investors, we are seeking to scale our high performing team.

As a Senior Engineer at Hiive, you will be a hands-on contributor to the backed system powering our platform, while building a user friendly interface. You will collaborate with technical leadership to deliver new core features to our application. You will work closely with your colleagues to refactor and improve the codebase; create a robust, scalable and secure infrastructure; and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of Elixir, Phoenix, and Ecto from day one.

• Strong experience working on frontend user interfaces

• Know the ins and outs of data modeling and software architecture for developing performant and maintainable code.

• Have experience with integrating with third party services through APIs and webhooks alongside local data processing.

• Be well versed in all aspects of secure API development.

• Be comfortable working with a small team including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.

• Adapt well to a quickly moving environment.

Required Experience:

• Substantial expertise building backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.

• Strong experience utilizing Typescript and React.

• Able to work in a team environment with a CI/CD driven workflow.

• Have a philosophy in writing automated backend tests.

Preferable Experience:

• Experience building GraphQL APIs using Absinthe.

• Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.

• Previous experience working in a fintech startup

Compensation Range: CA$140K - CA$200K