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At HIVED, we’re a climate and logistics start‑up building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale, powered by a 100% electric fleet.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the Routing Squad across technical strategy, delivery, team leadership, and execution of squad goals.
- Own the technical direction for systems supporting routing optimisation, supply‑demand matching, parcel distribution, forecasting, and planning.
- Translate business priorities and operational needs into clear technical strategy, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic execution plans.
- Guide architecture and system design for scalable, reliable, production‑grade optimisation and planning systems.
- Work closely with optimisation engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, analysts, product, and operational stakeholders to turn complex problems into shipped solutions.
- Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches across routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, and distributed systems.
- Set and uphold a high engineering bar through technical reviews, architectural guidance, mentoring, and accountability for maintainable software.
- Manage, coach, and develop engineers in the squad, including hiring, performance management, development planning, and resourcing.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, high performance, and continuous learning within the team.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including backend or distributed systems development.
- Experience leading engineers, either as a people manager or as a senior technical leader with meaningful ownership over team delivery.
- Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous business or operational problems into robust technical solutions.
- Strong system design and architectural skills in distributed, production‑grade environments.
- An appetite for hard optimisation problems—especially routing, scheduling, forecasting, supply‑demand matching, or other constraint‑heavy domains.
- Strong analytical thinking and the ability to combine technical depth with practical judgement.
- A track record of setting high engineering standards and helping teams consistently meet them.
- Experience working cross‑functionally with product, operations, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership.
- Strong ownership mindset: you care about the strategy, the system, the team, and the real‑world outcome.
Nice to have
- Experience with routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, logistics, mobility, or marketplace systems.
- Experience productionising algorithms, solvers, models, or data‑heavy decision systems.
- Familiarity with optimisation techniques such as linear/integer programming, constraint programming, heuristics, or solver‑based approaches.
- Experience working in a fast‑scaling operational environment where software has a direct physical‑world impact.
Technologies we use
- Backend languages: Python, Go
- Tech infrastructure: AWS, CDK TypeScript, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB
- Data tooling: GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Looker Studio
- Observability: Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Prometheus
- Event‑driven architecture and domain‑driven design
How we reward our team
- Dynamic hybrid working environment with a diverse and driven team
- Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment, with progression opportunities based on success in the role
- 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays
- 1 birthday day off + 2 tenure‑based additional days off
- Subsidised private medical insurance including dental, vision & mental health therapy
- Bi‑annual performance reviews and tailored development plans
- Competitive salary + EMI options scheme
- Annual compensation review
- Team lunch provided once a week
- Quarterly team socials and annual sports day (HIVED Olympics)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption policy as day 1 right
- Community volunteer days
- Cycle to work scheme
- Dog‑friendly office and depots
- MacBook Air or Windows laptop (depending on your preference)
Company: HIVED
Location: London
Job Description:
At HIVED, we’re a climate and logistics start‑up building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale, powered by a 100% electric fleet.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead the Routing Squad across technical strategy, delivery, team leadership, and execution of squad goals.
- Own the technical direction for systems supporting routing optimisation, supply‑demand matching, parcel distribution, forecasting, and planning.
- Translate business priorities and operational needs into clear technical strategy, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic execution plans.
- Guide architecture and system design for scalable, reliable, production‑grade optimisation and planning systems.
- Work closely with optimisation engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, analysts, product, and operational stakeholders to turn complex problems into shipped solutions.
- Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches across routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, and distributed systems.
- Set and uphold a high engineering bar through technical reviews, architectural guidance, mentoring, and accountability for maintainable software.
- Manage, coach, and develop engineers in the squad, including hiring, performance management, development planning, and resourcing.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, high performance, and continuous learning within the team.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including backend or distributed systems development.
- Experience leading engineers, either as a people manager or as a senior technical leader with meaningful ownership over team delivery.
- Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous business or operational problems into robust technical solutions.
- Strong system design and architectural skills in distributed, production‑grade environments.
- An appetite for hard optimisation problems—especially routing, scheduling, forecasting, supply‑demand matching, or other constraint‑heavy domains.
- Strong analytical thinking and the ability to combine technical depth with practical judgement.
- A track record of setting high engineering standards and helping teams consistently meet them.
- Experience working cross‑functionally with product, operations, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership.
- Strong ownership mindset: you care about the strategy, the system, the team, and the real‑world outcome.
Nice to have
- Experience with routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, logistics, mobility, or marketplace systems.
- Experience productionising algorithms, solvers, models, or data‑heavy decision systems.
- Familiarity with optimisation techniques such as linear/integer programming, constraint programming, heuristics, or solver‑based approaches.
- Experience working in a fast‑scaling operational environment where software has a direct physical‑world impact.
Technologies we use
- Backend languages: Python, Go
- Tech infrastructure: AWS, CDK TypeScript, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB
- Data tooling: GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Looker Studio
- Observability: Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Prometheus
- Event‑driven architecture and domain‑driven design
How we reward our team
- Dynamic hybrid working environment with a diverse and driven team
- Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment, with progression opportunities based on success in the role
- 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays
- 1 birthday day off + 2 tenure‑based additional days off
- Subsidised private medical insurance including dental, vision & mental health therapy
- Bi‑annual performance reviews and tailored development plans
- Competitive salary + EMI options scheme
- Annual compensation review
- Team lunch provided once a week
- Quarterly team socials and annual sports day (HIVED Olympics)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption policy as day 1 right
- Community volunteer days
- Cycle to work scheme
- Dog‑friendly office and depots
- MacBook Air or Windows laptop (depending on your preference)
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Posted: May 19th, 2026