Hive Labs

Frontend Senior Engineer

Hive Labs

2 days ago

## The Role We’re hiring a **Senior Frontend Engineer** to own the user-facing experience of Hive Labs. This role sits at the intersection of product, UX, and system clarity. You’ll be responsible for turning complex backend and execution logic into an interface that feels calm, sexy, trustworthy, and understandable - especially at moments where users are making high-stakes decisions. This is not a pixel-pushing role. Judgment matters. ## What You’ll Work On * Designing and building core product flows: * Intent input and clarification * Allocation previews and rationale * Execution review and confirmation * Post-execution state and monitoring * Making system decisions legible: * Constraints * Tradeoffs * Risks and failure modes * Wallet-aware UX (balances, eligibility, execution readiness) * Handling complex async states: * Simulations * Partial execution * Retries and recovery * Collaborating closely on product and system design * Helping define the design language and UX patterns from early stages ## What We’re Looking For **Required** * 5+ years of frontend engineering experience * Strong product and UX instincts * Experience building complex, stateful web applications * Comfort translating ambiguous product requirements into clear UX * Attention to detail around edge cases and error states **Strong Plus** * Experience with Web3 / DeFi frontends * Wallet integrations and transaction flows * Experience explaining complex systems to non-expert users * Design sensibility (you don’t need to be a designer, but you care) ## What This Is Not * Not a marketing site role * Not just implementing Figma files * Not a “Web3 NFT mint page” job ## How We Work * Product clarity over feature velocity * Explicit tradeoffs and honest UX * Non-custodial, safety-first mindset * Small team, real ownership The founder is product-led and does not code; this role has significant influence over how the system is experienced and understood. When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.

Senior Backend Engineer

Hive Labs

2 days ago

## The Role We’re looking for a **senior backend engineer** to own and evolve the core backend systems that power: * Protocol and pool indexing * Portfolio and allocation logic * Execution planning and transaction orchestration * Safety, constraints, and failure handling You’ll be working closely with the founder (product/system design) and will have **real ownership** over architecture and technical decisions. This is not a CRUD role. It is a **decision + execution system**. ## What You’ll Work On * Design and implement backend services that: * Ingest and normalize on-chain protocol data (pools, yields, constraints) * Represent pools, allocations, and execution plans as deterministic data structures * Build allocation and constraint logic (risk caps, concentration limits, eligibility filters) * Own execution planning: * Swaps, deposits, sequencing * Batching vs multi-tx flows * Simulation and preflight checks * Implement robust failure handling: * Partial execution * Slippage errors * Protocol unavailability * Collaborate on agent boundaries: * What is deterministic vs flexible * What the system is allowed vs forbidden to do * Help shape monitoring and post-execution state tracking ## What We’re Looking For **Required** * 5+ years of backend engineering experience * Strong system design instincts (you think in invariants, edge cases, failure modes) * Experience building production systems that interact with external, unreliable dependencies * Comfort working in ambiguous, early-stage environments * Strong opinions, weakly held **Strong Plus** * Experience with blockchain or DeFi systems (Solana preferred) * Experience with financial systems, trading, or risk-sensitive software * Familiarity with transaction orchestration, batching, or execution pipelines * Experience designing schemas and APIs that must remain stable over time ## AI Scope AI is used to interpret user intent and generate explanations - not to predict markets or autonomously move funds. You’ll help define clear interfaces and guardrails between AI outputs and backend execution logic. ## What This Is *Not* * Not a growth-hacking role * Not a UI-heavy role * Not “just integrate APIs” * Not a hype-driven AI project If you enjoy thinking about **what must never happen** as much as what should happen, you’ll like this role. ## How We Work * Non-custodial, safety-first mindset * Product clarity > feature velocity * Explicit constraints and contracts * Honest communication about what’s unfinished * Small team, high trust, real ownership The founder does not code and is very intentional about hiring senior engineers who care about correctness, architecture, and long-term product integrity. When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.