Senior Elixir Engineer — Remote, Production-Focused

Driftrock; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Driftrock is hiring a Senior Elixir Engineer to join a product squad and build marketing technology powering vehicle sales for major car brands. The platform uses Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ, with a focus on observable, production‑ready code.

You’ll own end-to-end features, design data models, and contribute to architecture in a small, high-discipline squad. Remote work is supported, with some UK overlap, and there are share options on offer.

Qualifications

• Backend systems designed and shipped in production.
• Solid CS fundamentals and understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Professional experience in Elixir, or deep experience in another backend language with drive to use Elixir as main tool.
• Comfort with asynchronous, event-driven systems and multiple services operating in parallel.
• Experience with web development.
• Interest in multiple stacks; comfortable on Linux and with Docker.
• Habit of writing tested, maintainable code and experience with CD, TDD, pairing, code reviews.
• Judgement to use AI tools wisely and avoid over-reliance.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver features in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView end-to-end.
• Design data models and services behind new features and manage safe migrations.
• Work within an event-driven architecture using APIs and RabbitMQ to handle growing data volumes.
• Write well-tested, production-ready code and participate in peer reviews.
• Shape the technical and product roadmap with your perspective.
• Use data and observability to ensure changes deliver value in production.
• Mentor engineers and introduce ideas from outside the Elixir ecosystem.

Skills

Elixir

Phoenix LiveView

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Testing / TDD

Code reviews

Tools

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Job description

Driftrock is hiring a Senior Elixir Engineer to join a product squad and build marketing technology powering vehicle sales for major car brands. The platform uses Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ, with a focus on observable, production‑ready code.

You’ll own end-to-end features, design data models, and contribute to architecture in a small, high-discipline squad. Remote work is supported, with some UK overlap, and there are share options on offer.