Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) — Remote, Impact & Growth

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

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