Developer Experience 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 https://www.hiive.com/careers to see how you can grow with us! As a Developer Experience Engineer at Hiive, you will build the tooling, workflows, and AI-enabled development practices that help every engineer move faster. You will treat Engineering as your customer, identify the highest-friction parts of the software development lifecycle, and ship practical improvements that make development simpler, faster, and more reliable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who loves building for builders and wants to shape how AI becomes part of day-to-day engineering work. In this role, your responsibilities would include: - Building internal tools, templates, scripts, and workflows that reduce friction across local development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, observability, and code review. - Leading practical AI adoption across Engineering by evaluating tools, designing usage patterns, creating examples, and helping teams apply AI safely in real delivery work. - Partnering with product engineers to discover bottlenecks, prioritize the highest-impact improvements, and measure whether tooling changes improve speed, quality, or developer satisfaction. - Creating and maintain golden paths for common engineering workflows, including new services, environment setup, recurring development tasks, and release processes. - Improving documentation, onboarding, and self-service support so engineers can solve common workflow problems without interrupting other teams. - Designing automation that removes repetitive work, reduces manual handoffs, and makes engineering systems easier to operate. - Contributing production-quality code and collaborate closely with platform, product engineering, security, and data teams. Required Skills: - Experience building internal developer tools, platform tooling, engineering productivity systems, CI/CD workflows, or comparable software infrastructure. - Strong software engineering ability in at least one modern programming language, with enough range to work across scripts, services, APIs, and developer-facing integrations. - Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools, coding agents, workflow automation, or applying AI to software delivery. - Ability to turn ambiguous developer pain points into clear problems, lightweight experiments, and shipped tooling improvements. - Experience with modern development workflows, including Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and production operations. - Clear written communication and documentation habits, especially for internal technical audiences. Preferred Skills: - Experience with developer portals, service templates, internal platforms, Backstage, or similar self-service tooling. - Experience in a high-growth fintech, marketplace, or regulated technology environment. - Familiarity with infrastructure as code, containers, cloud platforms, or deployment automation. - Experience creating internal enablement programs, engineering playbooks, or AI adoption guidelines. Compensation, Benefits & Perks: - 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 & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees…