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# Staff Software Engineer - Backend

- **Company:** The Hive
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Backend, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4ad59b02948186bd

## About the Role

* You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
 * You have 8+ years of experience building web applications
 * You have successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
 * You have delivered scalable backend APIs
 * You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action, * Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
 * Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
 * Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
 * Interest and ability to learn other coding language

## 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