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 Principal Engineer, you will be a leader on the engineering team, responsible for aligning a team of engineers to deliver on a specific mission as the senior-most technician on your team. You will be a primary, hands-on contributor to the product development process. You will direct the efforts of engineers on your team and level their skills. You will work directly with product and engineering leadership to deliver core features of our application, create a robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure, and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.In this role, your responsibilities will include* Have a proven track record of leading small cross-functional teams of engineers to deliver high-quality releases on time.\n* Consider themselves highly capable at hands-on development of one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir.\n* Be prepared to own the software architecture top-down across their team’s functional area.\n* Have a consistent attention to detail in their work that inspires others to ship better code.\n* Have advanced knowledge of the security, performance, and operational requirements of running code in a production environment.\n* Be able to evaluate possible technical implementations and consult with leadership on decision making.\n* Conduct code reviews and ensure the team is shipping complete features and producing quality code.\n* Advocate for best practices and continually iterate on internal processes to empower the engineering team to produce top-notch work.\n* Assist in the hiring process of a growing engineering team.\n* Invest in mentoring to help the rest of the team grow their skills.\n* Be comfortable working in a small company including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.\n* Adapt well to a quickly moving environment.\n\nRequired Experience:* Previous experience leading cross-functional engineering teams. Our teams are typically between 4-6 engineers, with a mix of seniority between frontend, backend, and full-stack engineers.\n* Substantial expertise building frontend with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.\n* Previous experience working with relational databases.\n* Previous experience working with Typescript and GraphQL.\n* Previous experience working with DevOps (infrastructure and deployments).\n\nPreferable Experience:* Experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.\n* Experience with Vercel and Next.js.\n* Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.\n* DevOps know-how, specifically deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes with Terraform.\n\nCompensation, Benefits & Perks: * Highly competitive salary, commensurate with experience and contribution.\n* Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.\n* Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, and a health spending account.\n* Preference to those who can work at our brand new, downtown Vancouver, BC HQ,. Open to Canadian and US-based remote candidates.\n* Enjoy a $20 per day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.\n* 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 Womens’ Network events.\n* Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.\n* Entrepreneurial culture, and a small and dynamic team.\n* Sponsorship, immigration and relocation for exceptional candidates.\n\nHiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, GraphQL, DevOps, Typescript, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nVancouver

\nKraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group. \n\n\nOur Team \n\n\nKraken is the technology platform behind Octopus Energy! The platform is also offered to utilities in a SaaS model and is based on a modern, cloud-based architecture with continuous deployments that enables high-speed innovation. \n\n\nKraken Utilities \n\n\nWe’re now charging our Kraken platform to power utilities beyond just energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business area Kraken Utilities. Over the last year we have built this team from scratch to re-architect, design, and develop our Kraken software platform to solve complex industry wide problems within the water and broadband sectors (customer experience, water leak detection software). \n\n\nThe Kraken Utilities team is now 50+ engineers and have already signed 4 clients (Portsmouth Water, Severn Trent, Leep, and Cuckoo Broadband). We are currently in a very exciting growth phase. Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors. \n\n\nAs Head of Engineering for the Water Industry, your main responsibility will be to manage 4~5 sub-teams working on building the water product and implementing Kraken for water utilities. You will manage Engineering leads and work closely with engineering teams as they identify issues and implement creative solutions to address them. You will manage your own project deliverables, contribute to product strategy and help develop and grow our teams. We are particularly excited to hear from people willing to immerse themselves in their area of expertise, from environmental sustainability to engineering excellence, and show strong product ownership. \n\n\nOur Technology \n\n\nAll technology is written and maintained by a global, multi-disciplinary team of around 700 engineers. This includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. We’re low on process, with a high level of trust given to individuals.\n\n\nMost of our server-side applications are written in Python. The Kraken platform is built using Django and Celery, and makes extensive use of GraphQL and REST APIs.\n\n\nWe use an immutable infrastructure approach to manage our AWS environments. We heavily use EKS, RDS Aurora, AmazonMQ, S3 and EventBridge in our platform architecture. We practise continuous deployment and release new versions of Kraken around 200 times per day.\n\n\nEngineering standards are high. We pair program, thoroughly review and test code before it deploys, and maintain fast, high-value test suites. We have weekly tech talks, a day a month devoted to sharpening our internal tools, upgrading dependencies, paying off technical debt - we call it “spa day” - and we can often be found at tech meet-ups and conferences.\n\n\nMany of our coding conventions are open-source and we maintain a tech blog. Kraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills. \n\n\n\nWhat you'll do:\n* Lead and scale the Kraken Utilities water team, overseeing a talented group of over 25 engineers.\n* Embed a great engineering, problem solving and customer-first culture\n* Provide leadership and mentorship to 5~7 engineering leads to build high-performing teams.\n* Ensure that the engineering team ships consistently high quality, reliable, scalable, secure and performant software.\n* Architect new components of the Kraken platform and drive continuous development to meet evolving client needs.\n* Collaborate with client stakeholders to facilitate smooth migration and adoption of our platform as a service (SaaS).\n* Work closely with the existing Kraken team to help build a consistent platform\n* Collaborate closely with the Telco team to ensure consistency \n* Communicate with a wide range of stakeholders (technical and non technical). \n\n\n\nWhat you'll need:\n* Technical depth and breadth to drive the future development of the platform\n* Structured problem solving skills to decompose and solve ambiguous problems \n* Ability to hack a quick prototype and to properly architect a system design (and the ability/pragmatism to decide when to do what)\n* Inspirational leadership style and entrepreneurial energy\n* Past experience in one of the areas like enterprise software, Large scale transaction processing, AI and machine learning software is desirable\n* Scaling up platforms serving a few geographies and 10X millions to multi geography multi entity 100X millions would be ideal\n* Familiarity with key technology components underpinning Kraken’s stack ie python, django, django-REST-framework, AWS, kubernetes, terraform, react and graphQL, is required\n* Experience managing teams of teams (20+ engineers is desired). \n* Stakeholder management experience. \n\n\n\nWhy you'll love it here:\n* Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!\n* Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people \n* Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits\n\n\n\n\n\nThis team will require candidates to work on a hybrid remote basis, coming into our office in Oxford Circus 1-2 days a week. You do also need to be able to work in the UK. \n\n\nWe're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.\n\n\nIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. \n\n\nStudies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, React, GraphQL, Django and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, UK

\nKraken is the technology tentacle of the Octopus Energy Group. \n\n\nOur team\n\n\nAll technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 500 people globally. Our engineers work in ‘super teams’ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products. This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. \n \nTeams are empowered to choose a way of working that works for them, often opting for a Kanban-like approach. Notion and Asana are then used to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Datadog, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production. \n\n\nWe’re Charging Kraken to power utilities beyond energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new business Kraken Utilities. We are building this team from scratch and are looking for experienced engineers to help us build and scale the team, implement a good culture and work on some really exciting tech challenges. \n \nAs an early tech hire into this team you will have a huge opportunity to impact decision making and growing into leadership roles as the business scales.\n \nTogether with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors.\n \nSome of our coding conventions are open-source . \n \nKraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills.  \n \nOur technology\n\n\nOn the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene).  \n \nWe use AWS heavily  as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery. \n \nClient-side, we use React, htmx and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native.\n\n\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Take ownership of reporting, analysis and stakeholder engagement\n* Understand problems and requirements of the business and come up with pragmatic data solutions, such as data pipelines, visualisation tools and etc.\n* Act as the subject matter expert on data structure and definitions\n* Be comfortable working with some ambiguity: we are busy scaling and as such specific responsibilities, projects and focus will evolve over time\n\n\n\nWhat you'll need\n* 2+ years of hands-on experience building BI tools and using SQL & python to extract business insights from large data datasets\n* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to explain complex technical topics to a diverse range of stakeholders\n* Experience in data modelling and building ETL pipelines\n* Strong business intelligence and analytical mindset\n* Understanding of cloud technologies, preferably with AWS\n\nPlus experience with the following is nice to have: \n* Experience using dbt\n* Basic understanding of machine learning and A/B testing\n\n\n\nWhy else you'll love it here\n* Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!\n* Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people \n* Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits\n\n\n\n\n\nThis team will require candidates to work on a hybrid remote basis, coming into our office in Oxford Circus 1-2 days a week. You do also need to be able to work in the UK. \n\n\nWe're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.\n\n\n\n\nIf this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. \n\n\nStudies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, GraphQL, Python, Cloud and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon, UK