Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Remote seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to own core services, ship features, and maintain robust, scalable APIs. You will collaborate across teams, drive CI/CD practices, and mentor peers in a fast-moving environment. The role welcomes experience with modern FP languages and cloud platforms.

Remote-friendly, global opportunity with strong growth potential. You will participate in architecture discussions, reviews, and RFCs, ensuring high-quality, resilient software while supporting product goals

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer delivering complex software.
• CI/CD experience with GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar.
• Nice to have: functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects.
• Actively participate in product work; provide feedback and suggest improvements.
• Maintain understanding of the team’s domain from product and engineering sides.
• Provide feedback on code reviews.
• Contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve technical and business issues.
• Mentor and guide other engineers.
• Investigate and implement platform improvements.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable APIs.

Skills

Senior Backend Engineer

CI/CD

Functional programming

Tools

Docker

AWS

Next.js

React/Vue/Angular

Job description

Defining the future of work & living globally

Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.

Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.

A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.

Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.

A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!

Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

What you bring

• Must have (professional experience):
• Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, including building, shipping, and maintaining complex software projects.
• CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar)
• Nice to have
• Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Key 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

Practicals

Location: Anywhere in the World

Start date: As soon as possible