Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Job Description

Remote is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) to join their engineering team. The successful candidate will work on building tools, APIs, and integrations for one of Remote's products. Remote's backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. They use React and Nextjs for their front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker and a CI/CD solution. Their applications are hosted on AWS.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
• Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems.
• Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
• Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
• Provide feedback on code reviews
• Contribute to the shared codebase
• Debug and solve technical and business issues
• Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
• Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Requirements:

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
• Postgres (or similar)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
• Kubernetes (Nice to have)
• Docker (Nice to have)
• AWS (Nice to have)
• Nextjs (Nice to have)
• React/Vue/Angular (Nice to have)

Remote offers:

• Complex and meaningful challenges
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business
• A lot of freedom to organize your work and life
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits
• A supportive and kind work environment
• Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth
• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces