Senior Elixir Engineer - Remote, High-Impact Backend

Driftrock; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 106,000; Full time

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Job summary

Driftrock is hiring a Senior Elixir Engineer to join a product squad and help build marketing technology for automotive brands. The role is remote, with UK overlap, and reports to the Engineering Team Lead. Salary range £60,000 to £80,000 plus share options.

The stack centers on Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and a modern data-driven backend with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Oban. You’ll own features end-to-end, ship to production from week one, and shape the squad's approach.

Qualifications

• Proven backend design and shipping in production.
• Strong CS fundamentals and understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Professional experience in Elixir or a strong drive to switch to Elixir as main tool.
• Comfort with asynchronous, event-driven systems and distributed services.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of features within your squad.
• Ship well-tested, production-ready Elixir code to move product and customers' results forward.
• Collaborate with engineers, participate in design discussions and set technical direction.
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Elixir

Backend design

PostgreSQL

Redis

Tools

RabbitMQ

Oban

Phoenix LiveView

TailwindCSS

Docker

Job description

Driftrock is hiring a Senior Elixir Engineer to join a product squad and help build marketing technology for automotive brands. The role is remote, with UK overlap, and reports to the Engineering Team Lead. Salary range £60,000 to £80,000 plus share options.

The stack centers on Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, and a modern data-driven backend with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Oban. You’ll own features end-to-end, ship to production from week one, and shape the squad's approach.