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# Senior Software Engineer - Backend

- **Company:** The Hive
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Backend, Microservices
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=107d98bd64466ae9

## About the Role

* You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
 * A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications
 * You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
 * You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
 * You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs
 * You have deep 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 with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates
 * You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

## Description

* 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