Senior Software Engineer - Ruby (f/m/d)

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Senior Backend Engineer - you’ll have the chance to shape not only our product but also our engineering culture and ways of working.

Overview

The position

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll have the chance to shape not only our product but also our engineering culture and ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Build products that matter: We create products our brands love and rely on every day to grow and scale.
• Design, develop, and maintain core backend systems: in Ruby on Rails, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability as we continue to grow across Europe.
• Own features end-to-end: from collaborating with product managers on requirements, to architecting solutions, writing code, deploying, and monitoring in production.
• Continuously improve our architecture: help us scale a Rails monolith sustainably by improving modularity, performance, security, and developer experience.
• Ensure quality and reliability: write well-tested, maintainable code, contribute to code reviews, and help raise the engineering bar across the team.
• Collaborate across teams: work closely with Product, Data, and Operations to shape solutions that create real business impact.
• Mentor and support teammates: share knowledge, and guide less experienced engineers in best practices.

Your profile

• You’ve done this before, multiple times: you’ve worked with Ruby on Rails (5+ years of experience in software engineering) and know how to ship production-ready features in a fast-paced environment.
• Builder at heart: you love solving problems and creating scalable systems from scratch. You care about architecture, performance, and developer experience.
• Business impact matters to you: you balance writing elegant code with making pragmatic trade-offs that deliver value quickly.
• You care about quality: you write maintainable, well-documented, and well-tested code (knowing it saves time down the road).
• You thrive in collaboration: you enjoy working with product managers, designers, and other engineers, and you communicate clearly across functions.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience scaling a large Rails monolith or breaking one into modular components.
• Strong SQL knowledge and experience optimizing queries.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, Kafka, or similar messaging systems.
• Background in e-commerce, logistics, supply chain, or order management systems.
• You are a fullstack engineer or are excited to grow into one.

Stack

• Ruby on Rails on the backend. Our backend services are all written in Rails.
• React + TypeScript on the Frontend. We use styled-components and Tailwind.
• Modern tooling. GitHub, Sentry, Vercel, AWS, Linear, Figma, Segment, June.so, Notion, and Slack. Our marketing websites are built with Webflow.

Our offering

• Be part of the Hive: Join a high-performing team with a culture of trust, collaboration, and constructive feedback—where people are empowered to grow and make a real impact.
• Make your mark: Shape the future of commerce operations in a fast-scaling company with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Competitive compensation: Market-competitive salaries, including an equity incentive plan (EIP) for all full-time team members.
• Tools to thrive: MacBook and stipend for your preferred setup to boost productivity.
• Well-being: 30 vacation days per year, plus 20 days as paid sabbatical every 3 years at Hive.
• Office perks & flexibility: Flexible hours, free drinks and snacks, regular team events, and workations.

About Us

We’re revolutionizing e-commerce operations. Hive empowers brands to excel with our operations platform, combining technology with a curated network of partners. Since 2020, we’ve grown across Europe with locations in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid, London, and Amsterdam. Backed by Tiger Global, Earlybird, and Picus Capital, we’re scaling our impact. Diversity and inclusion are core to our success. We welcome talent from all backgrounds and encourage authentic professional growth.

Diversity and inclusion are core to our success. We actively cultivate an environment where every team member, regardless of background, can thrive. We welcome talent from all walks of life, regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. At Hive, authenticity and professional growth go hand in hand.