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, Benefits & Perks:- Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.
- 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.
- Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver 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.
