The position
At Hive, we're building the leading operations platform for independent commerce and we are looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team.
Your work will impact hundreds of commerce brands and millions of end customers across our merchant-facing product (“Hive App”), our end customer offering (“Customer Portal” and “Delivery Promise”), and our Warehouse Management Software.
What you'll be doing: - Lead and mentor a high-performance engineering team, providing regular feedback, supporting professional growth, and ensuring effective onboarding of new members.
- Oversee project planning, estimations, and resource management, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical feasibility.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to define project scopes, deliverables, and prioritize the technical backlog, including technical debt and improvements.
- Maintain high standards of code quality and software craftsmanship, ensuring adherence to architectural decisions and best practices throughout development.
- Manage the successful deployment of software releases, ensuring quality, reliability, and monitoring critical systems with observability practices.
- Lead incident response efforts, ensuring timely issue resolution and conducting post-incident analyses to prevent future occurrences.
- Actively participate in recruitment and retention efforts, focusing on career growth opportunities, fostering a positive team environment, and maintaining high employee engagement (eNPS).
Your profile
We know - sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit! - You've led teams before. You have experience managing engineering teams, driving complex projects to completion, and balancing technical leadership with people management. Ideally, you’ve worked as an Engineering Manager for 3+ years, or in a technical leadership role with a similar scope.
- You’re strategic and hands-on. You can zoom in and out of problems, from high-level planning to technical details. You’re able to make architectural decisions while keeping an eye on the overall business impact.
- You care about technical excellence. You uphold high standards of code quality and software craftsmanship, ensuring your team delivers well-tested, maintainable solutions that can scale. Architecture and best practices matter to you.
- You prioritize delivery. You understand that shipping reliable, high-quality software is essential, but you also know how to balance timelines and trade-offs. You're experienced in overseeing software releases, ensuring operational success and stability.
- Mentor at heart. You enjoy guiding and coaching engineers, helping them grow in their careers, and creating a collaborative and high-performance team environment. You believe in providing regular, constructive feedback to help people thrive.
Bonus points: - You have experience with large-scale system architecture and designing solutions that scale efficiently.
- You bring along a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and have successfully led teams through iterative development processes.
Our stack:
- Ruby on Rails on the backend. Our backend services are all written in Ruby — it allowed us to get going and keep iterating quickly, our infra is all managed via AWS
- React + TypeScript on the frontend. Our frontend applications are written in React and TypeScript, and we use styled-components for styling
- We work with modern tooling. Code is hosted on GitHub, error reporting handled in Sentry, Vercel for hosting and deploying our frontend services and AWS for the backend infrastructure, Linear used for issue tracking, we design in Figma, analyze with Segment and June.so, have Notion as our internal wiki, and use Slack for internal communication. Our marketing websites are built with Webflow.
Our offering
- Join the Hive! You’ll work with a highly driven team of exceptional and experienced professionals across all domains. Our team members have backgrounds at companies like Amazon, Shopify, Google, Trade Republic, Flink, McKinsey, Blackstone, J.P. Morgan, and DHL. We foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and empowerment, with a focus on constructive feedback in a positive and inspiring work environment.
- Make an impact. Join a young company with an entrepreneurial culture operating at lightning speed — we want you to grow with us
- You will be valued. We offer attractive compensation, including virtual employee stock options for all full-time team members plus your choice of hardware according to your preference
- We support your well-being. Opportunity for a sabbatical after three years with us, alongside a dedicated monthly wellness and productivity budget.
- We will get you set up. Operating system and hardware of your choice, additional tech equipment that you need, screens, you name it — we want to enable you to do your best work
- There's more! Enjoy flexible working hours, free drinks and snacks in our office in Berlin, Paris, Milan, London & Madrid and join regular team events such as off-sites and workcations
About us
We make better commerce operations for everyone.
Hive’s mission is to make commerce operations better - for brands, consumers and ops partners. Hive seamlessly combines powerful technology with a network of leading operations providers, saving commerce brands on average 17% on costs and generating up to 24% revenue uplift. All-in-one, through our Hive App. The Hive ecosystem spans the full operational chain. Started just in 2020, Hive already works with hundreds of the leading brands across Europe such as HOLY, mybacs and Inkster and has become the leading operations platform in Europe. Backed by acclaimed global investors including Tiger Global, Earlybird, Picus Capital, we are rapidly expanding our pan-European network with our newly opened fulfillment centers and offices in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid and London.
At Hive, we believe fostering diversity in every team makes us a stronger company overall. We do not discriminate based on religion, skin color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We strive to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels encouraged to be their true self and to grow professionally.
