About Hive
Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world's largest 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!
About the Role
In order to execute our vision, we need to grow our team of best-in-class engineers. We are looking for developers who are excited about launching new products and features into production, who can work autonomously and aren’t afraid to try new technologies, and who don’t back down from the challenges of scale. Our ideal candidate has experience building core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares just as much about the product itself as the technology that powers it, and is capable of both structuring and writing clean, maintainable code.
Responsibilities
Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
Practice test-driven development
Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
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 a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
You have a few years of experience building web applications
You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
You have experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices
You have experience building scalable backend APIs
You have experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus
You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
You are comfortable learning new technologies and systems
You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action
