Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Deepstreamtech; United States; Remote; USD 51,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team, where you'll tackle complex challenges that empower businesses to operate globally. In this fully remote role, you'll work with cutting-edge technologies such as Elixir and Postgres, contributing to impactful projects that shape the future of remote work. Enjoy a supportive environment that values your contributions, offers competitive compensation, and promotes work-life balance. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a growing company, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Stock options

Flexible working hours

Mental health support

Learning budget

Home office budget

16 weeks paid parental leave

Budget for local social events

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer with Elixir.
• Experience with Postgres and CI/CD tools like GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of major projects and participate in cross-team initiatives.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.

Skills

Elixir

Postgres

CI/CD

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Nextjs

React

Job description

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge:employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible forbusinesses big and small to employ a global team by handling globalpayroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check outremote.com/how-it-worksto learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders,sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any otherunder-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense ofbelonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews andbeyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation torequest one from their recruiter.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The position

You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SREand QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assignedto specific verticals.

This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exactteam that you will be joining during the interview process based on thebusiness needs and your preferences.

Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

Ourbackend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. Weuse React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a versioncontrol tool, issue tracker and a CI/CD solution. Our applications arehosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploymultiple times per day.

What this job can offer you

• Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable peopleand businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we arestill very early in our journey as a company, and each change you maketoday 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 Backend Engineer working with Elixir,which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated softwareproject
• Postgres (or similar)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have

• Kubernetes
• 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 expertiseto 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

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophyis to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along withcompetitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do notagree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure topay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies tosupport global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developingcountries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is somecontext. At Remote we have international operations and a globallydistributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic paydifferentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remaincompetitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is between USD51,850 to USD 116,650. Our salary ranges are determined by role, leveland location, and our job titles may span more than one career level.The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role isdependent upon many factors such as location, transferable orjob-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs,and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

Application process

1. Interview with our recruiter
2. Interview with an Engineering Leader
3. (async) Code exercise andreview
4. Interview with the members of the engineering team
5. Bar Raiser Interview
6. Executive Interview with VP of Engineering
7. Offer andPrior employment verification check

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Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook atremote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we areasync)
• 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

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested intalking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profileinstead.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interviewstage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographicquestionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunityemployer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of allbackgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us tostay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.