Senior Frontend 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 Senior Frontend Engineer, you will be a hands-on contributor within a product pod, building client-facing product experiences on our main platform. You will collaborate with technical leaders and the founding team to deliver new features. You will work closely with your colleagues to refactor and improve the codebase; create a beautiful, functional, and delightful user experience; and build an excellent and supportive engineering culture.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Build mobile-responsive user interfaces with React and TypeScript, shipping high-quality code from day one.
• Own frontend architecture decisions, including component design, state management, and performance optimization.
• Set frontend engineering standards and mentor other engineers on best practices, code quality, and reusable component design.
• Partner with product designers to translate mockups into polished, accessible implementations, and give input on UI/UX feasibility earlier in the design process.
• Collaborate closely with a small team, including directly with the founders, to build both the product and the company.
• Adapt quickly to a fast-moving environment and shifting priorities. Required Experience: - 5+ years building interfaces with React.
• Substantial experience working in Typescript, including in performance-critical or large-scale codebases.
• Experience with component libraries (such as Chakra UI).
• Working with authenticated backend APIs.
• Translating design mockups (e.g. Figma) into implementation.
• Working closely with product designers on feedback for UI/UX changes.
• Experience setting technical direction or mentoring other frontend engineers. Preferred Experience:
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs and Apollo Client is a nice-to-have.
• Experience with backend languages like Elixir highly preferred.
• Understanding of the ins and outs of frontend architecture and software design for developing performant and maintainable code. 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. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members).
• If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Women’s Network events.
• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates. Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. AI, automated tools, and applicant privacy notice: As part of our recruitment and hiring process, Hiive may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to assist in screening applications, evaluating candidate qualifications, and supporting interview processes. These tools are designed to support and inform human decision-making and are not used as the sole basis for any employment decision. We may collect, use, and analyze personal information you provide in connection with your application, including generating insights or inferences to assess job-related qualifications. This information is used for recruitment, evaluation, and compliance purposes in accordance with applicable law. We take reasonable steps to evaluate and monitor our hiring tools and practices to promote fairness, consistency, and non-discrimination. Where required by applicable law - including in Ontario, Quebec, New York City, Illinois, and California - we conduct or rely on assessments such as bias audits, honor rights related to automated decision-making, and provide additional disclosures on request. Depending on your location, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information and the use of automated processing, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your information, or to receive additional information about our data practices. We honor such rights where required by applicable law. For accommodation requests or questions about this notice, contact careers@hiive.com.