We’re on a mission to make parcel delivery clean, and our drivers are at the heart of it. If you love getting stuck into meaty backend problems with real purpose, you’ll feel right at home building the complex, distributed systems behind HIVED’s emission-free delivery network. Every feature you ship puts the right information in a driver’s hands at exactly the right moment, helping them deliver smarter and greener from the moment they log on to the very last drop of the day.
In the Driver Squad, you’ll take genuine ownership of problems across the backend systems and tooling that keep our drivers moving. You’ll drive features end-to-end, from discovery through to deployment and monitoring, scoping the solution, weighing the trade-offs, and contributing to the squad’s engineering quality, all in close partnership with Product, UX, Operations, and fellow engineers. We’re rebuilding parcel delivery from the ground up on a modern stack, with sustainability, flexibility, and scalability baked in from day one.
These are real challenges on our roadmap that you’ll have a hand in cracking:
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Last metre navigation. Guide drivers to the exact closest access point to a customer’s door, shaving precious seconds off every drop.
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Smarter routing. Teach our systems to recognise different types of addresses, like a business that’s shut on a weekend, so we stop attempting drops that were never going to land. Fewer wasted miles means faster routes for drivers and lighter emissions.
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Telemetry that shapes behaviour. Turn on-the-road telemetry data into insight that helps us understand and positively influence how our drivers drive.
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Never lose a parcel. Build the tooling that detects and traces lost parcels, ideally before a customer ever notices.
We’ve raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja, and a big slice of it is going straight into the engineering teams you’d be joining. This role exists because we’re scaling fast.
The traction is real: over 6.5 million parcels delivered across London for the likes of John Lewis, Zara, Uniqlo, and Nespresso, 99% on-time, and customer satisfaction north of 90% in an industry that averages around 32%. We’re growing quickly and rolling out to new UK cities. We’re also a certified B Corp and one of the only fully electric delivery networks around, so sustainability isn’t a marketing line, it’s the model.
And as the business grows, so do the engineering problems. Every new city and every jump in parcel volume reshapes what our systems need to handle, so you’ll be solving real scaling challenges first-hand. You’ll also stay close to the operation, on the ground with drivers and ops rather than removed from the people your work actually serves.