Experience building internal developer tools, platform tooling, and CI/CD workflows.
Strong software engineering skills in a modern programming language.
Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflow automation.
Ability to identify developer pain points and drive tooling improvements.
Familiarity with modern development workflows like Git and automated testing.
Excellent written communication for technical audiences.
Responsibilities
Build internal tools and workflows to enhance development efficiency.
Lead AI adoption by evaluating tools and guiding practical applications.
Identify and prioritize bottlenecks in engineering processes to implement improvements.
Create and maintain streamlined workflows for common engineering tasks.
Enhance documentation and self-service support for engineers.
Design automation to reduce manual processes and improve system operation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure production-quality code.
Benefits
Participation in employee stock ownership plan.
100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, with spending accounts for Canadian employees.
Vancouver office perks including stocked fridge, gym, and rooftop amenities.
Daily commuter benefit for in-office employees in Vancouver.
Engaging social activities and team-building events throughout the year.
Opportunities for growth into leadership and management roles.
An entrepreneurial culture within a small, dynamic team.
Full Job Description
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.
