Senior Frontend Engineer

About HIVED

The world needs logistics solutions that are better for people and the environment and thats where HIVED comes in. We are a Londonbased climate and logistics startup building the first emissionfree parcel delivery network at scale powered by a 100% electric fleet. A tech company at heart we have built a modern tech stack novel inhouse routing and decision engines apps and data stack plus are now shipping for over 100 brands including Asos Zara Karen Millen and more.

Our tightknit team is made up of exRevolut Bain GoPuff ASOS Apple Amazon Bulb and Google employees and we are backed by some of Europes leading investors and VCs in climatetech logistics and mobility including Planet A Ventures Maersk Growth Pale Blue Dot VC Eka Ventures and the British government.

Role overview

As a Senior Frontend Engineer at HIVED you will use your expertise to lead our frontend engineering projects from start to finish. You will take a central position in setting up a scaleable and flexible baseline for the wider HIVED frontend ecosystem. This includes but is not limited to choosing the right technologies for each individual use case conceptualising and implementing reusable components and architecture as well as improving existing products with new features.

Examples of the products you will be working on include extensive driver mobile apps that provide an effortless and efficient delivery experience for our delivery drivers topoftheclass parcel tracking dashboards and apps for our recipients and retailers to manage their orders as well as many adjacent products. Youll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and collaborate closely with internal stakeholders as part of our crossfunctional team. Your contributions will have a lasting impact on internal and external products and youll see your designs in action making a real difference in the lives of thousands of drivers and millions of customers.

The ideal candidate for this role brings enthusiasm for a fastpaced startup environment views challenges as growth opportunities and excels as team player while also being capable of autonomously driving their work. They are great communicators allowing them to effectively convey ideas to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders and understand the best way forward. They have a genuine passion for user experience and visual design consistently delivering exceptional results by approaching challenges with a creative but pragmatic problemsolving mindset.

We believe in a lean and autonomous engineering team. Our engineers hold a large amount of ownership and autonomy and are expected to build indepth understanding of the solutions they are working on across the entire stack.

Responsibilities

• Work within a crossfunctional engineering and product team and business stakeholders to create web and mobile apps
• Design clientside architecture and collaborate with other engineers to bring your solutions to life
• Build the frontend of applications through appealing visual design and work closely with our designers and product managers to create shinynew features
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot debug and upgrade software
• Write both technical and nontechnical documentation

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Frontend Engineer preferably with 5 years of experience
• Experience building accessible and performant interfaces across Web and Mobile
• Experience scaling frontend projects to an organisational level
• Experience in following testing best practices
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• An analytical and solutionfocussed mind

Technologies we use

• Mobile: Flutter/ Dart
• Web: React Typescript
• Backend: Golang
• Platform: AWS (Lambda SQS EventBridge DynamoDB RDS CDK)
• Github Github Actions

Benefits

How we reward our Team

• Dynamic working environment with a diverse and driven team
• Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment with progression opportunities based on success in the role
• 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives including three wellbeing days in addition to holiday allowance
• Weekly team lunch and regular company socials
• MacBook Laptop
• 1 day per week remote working
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy

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