Senior Elixir Engineer: Distributed Systems & Cloud

10Pearls; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

10Pearls is seeking a Senior Elixir Developer to design, build, and scale highly available distributed systems powering mission-critical applications. You will architect backend services, optimize performance, and drive technical excellence across the engineering organization.

This role requires deep expertise in Elixir, BEAM, and cloud-native architectures, with strong experience in Phoenix, PostgreSQL, and modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong expertise in Elixir, Erlang/OTP, GenServer, Supervisors, and BEAM internals.
• Experience with Phoenix Framework and Phoenix LiveView.
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Elixir and Phoenix.
• Build fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging OTP principles and BEAM capabilities.
• Architect APIs, event-driven services, and real-time applications for reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions.
• Design and implement messaging, streaming, and asynchronous processing workflows.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, and resource utilization across production environments.
• Develop and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, internal services, and data systems.
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for production services.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployment processes.
• Establish coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines.

Skills

Elixir expertise

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Collaboration

5+ years software engineering

Tools

Elixir

Phoenix

Phoenix LiveView

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

GraphQL

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Git

CI/CD

Job description

10Pearls is seeking a Senior Elixir Developer to design, build, and scale highly available distributed systems powering mission-critical applications. You will architect backend services, optimize performance, and drive technical excellence across the engineering organization.

This role requires deep expertise in Elixir, BEAM, and cloud-native architectures, with strong experience in Phoenix, PostgreSQL, and modern DevOps practices.