Staff Backend Engineer - Routing & Optimisation (Hybrid)

HIVED LTD; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

25 days holiday + holidays

Private medical insurance

EMI options scheme

Annual compensation review

MacBook Air / Windows laptop

Job summary

HIVED LTD is a London-based climate and logistics startup building a 100% electric, sustainable parcel delivery network. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join the Routing Squad, tackling complex optimization and forecasting problems at scale to improve our core delivery engine.

You will design distributed routing systems, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and push for innovative, production-ready solutions that create real business impact and efficiency improvements.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience architecting and building distributed systems.
• Proven ability to translate complex requirements into production-grade solutions with measurable business impact.
• Solid coding skills (Python or Golang preferred, though experience in other languages like Java or C++ is also valued).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed systems for routing, supply-demand matching, and other core logistics challenges.
• Work closely with optimisation engineers, data scientists, and analysts to integrate algorithms and solvers into production.
• Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches to solve complex business problems.
• Partner with product and operational stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Contribute to forecasting and planning systems that power strategic and tactical decisions across the business.
• Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and robustness of our routing and optimisation stack.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Go

Cloud (AWS)

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

CDK

Lambda

SQS

EventBridge

RDS

DynamoDB

GCP

Job description

HIVED LTD is a London-based climate and logistics startup building a 100% electric, sustainable parcel delivery network. We are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join the Routing Squad, tackling complex optimization and forecasting problems at scale to improve our core delivery engine.

You will design distributed routing systems, collaborate with data scientists and engineers, and push for innovative, production-ready solutions that create real business impact and efficiency improvements.