Senior Backend Engineer (Fully Remote)

Peek; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Best place to work

Job summary

Peek is seeking a backend engineer with a passion for Elixir to build scalable services powering experiences across museums and tours. You will design APIs, model data, optimize SQL workloads, and ensure reliability across interconnected services.

You have 5+ years of Elixir development, experience with relational or non-relational databases, and comfort debugging production issues. This remote-first, globally distributed team emphasizes customer obsession and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Elixir development.
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, SQL, service reliability.
• Experience debugging production issues in a distributed system.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services in Elixir.
• Model data and optimize SQL queries for performance at scale.
• Ensure reliability and monitoring across integrated services.

Skills

Elixir

API design

SQL

Data modeling

Backend reliability

Debug production issues

Tools

RabbitMQ

Job description

• Strong backend fundamentals in Elixir: API design, data modeling, SQL, service reliability, and debugging production issues.
• Emphasis on creating scalable and reliable backend systems that integrate seamlessly with multiple services and products.
• Adaptability to the changing tech industry: demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools in a production engineering workflow.

Skills you already have:

• A passion for Elixir and functional programming.
• 5+ years of professional development using Elixir.
• Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases.

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with Ruby.
• Experience working with GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ.

Peek

Peek is an AI-powered platform that powers the experiences industry, from museums to tours, with over $7B in bookings. They are a remote-first global team recognized as a best place to work, emphasizing customer obsession and collaboration.