Principal Product Engineer

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Hiive brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre‑IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Hiive is profitable, well‑capitalized, and building a high‑performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page to see how you can grow with us!

As a
Principal Product 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 leverage AI tools and techniques to enhance development velocity, code quality, and decision‑making. 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.

• Have a proven track record of leading small cross‑functional teams of engineers to deliver high‑quality releases on time.
• Consider themselves highly capable at hands‑on development of one or more of Typescript, React, and Elixir.
• Be prepared to own the software architecture top‑down across their team’s functional area.
• Champion the adoption of AI technologies in the development lifecycle to accelerate delivery and elevate engineering standards.
• Have a consistent attention to detail in their work that inspires others to ship better code.
• Have advanced knowledge of the security, performance, and operational requirements of running code in a production environment.
• Evaluating possible technical implementations and consulting with leadership on decision making.
• Conducting code reviews and ensure the team is shipping complete features and producing quality code.
• Advocating for best practices and continually iterate on internal processes to empower the engineering team to produce top‑notch work.
• Assisting in the hiring process of a growing engineering team.
• Investing in mentoring to help the rest of the team grow their skills.
• Be comfortable working in a small company including directly with the founders on building a product and a company.
• Adapting well to a quickly moving environment.

• 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.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to enhance engineering productivity, code quality, and team velocity.
• Substantial expertise building frontend with React and Typescript or backend systems with Elixir and Phoenix.
• Previous experience working with relational databases.
• Previous experience working with Typescript and Graph
  
  QL.
• Previous experience working with Dev Ops (infrastructure and deployments).

• Experience building Graph
  
  QL APIs with Apollo Client and Absinthe.
• Experience with Vercel and Next.js.
• Understanding of Postgres databases design and optimization.
• Dev Ops know‑how, specifically deploying and configuring AWS services and Kubernetes with Terraform.

• 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 and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.
• 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…