Senior Software Engineer, Elixir - Romania

PDQ; Romania (PA); Hybrid; USD 46,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team. In this hybrid role, you will develop features for their cloud-native SaaS product, working closely with teams in the US and Romania. Ideal candidates will have strong Elixir experience and a passion for delivering innovative solutions. Competitive perks include supplementary health insurance and equity options.

Benefits

Supplementary health insurance

Equity

Company laptop and accessories

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software development projects.
• Experience with CI/CD workflows.
• Strong ability to create proposals and specifications from user requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build new features and enhancements for the Connect product.
• Collaborate with engineering teams in the US and Romania.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and provide customer support.

Skills

Functional programming (Elixir)

UI/UX design for SaaS products

Agile development

GraphQL

Git version control

Debugging skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick through our products Deploy, Inventory, Connect, Detect, SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms.

PDQ's Core Values

Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement

Job Description

As a Software Engineer at PDQ, you’ll play a key role in developing and maintaining our Connect product. In this role, you’ll contribute across the entire product lifecycle—from ideation and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. Your responsibilities will include building new features, resolving bugs, improving existing code, and continuously growing your technical skills as part of a collaborative engineering team.

Before you apply, please note:

• This is a hybrid role open to candidates residing within commuting distance of our Bucharest, RO based office.

What you'll be doing

• Build new features and enhancements in Elixir and React with TypeScript for our cloud-native, agent-based SaaS product.
• Work in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles.
• Collaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases.
• Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Participate in constructive code reviews and continuous learning.

We’re looking for people who have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience
• Strong experience with functional programming languages (especially Elixir)
• Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products
• Experience with agent-based or end-point management SaaS products is a plus
• 4+ years of experience working on a variety of professional software development projects
• Familiarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Exposure to open-source development is a plus.

Who you are

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development
• Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills
• Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale
• Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium
• Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies
• Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems
• Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements
• Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely

Benefits

PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you’d expect from working at a very cool tech company, and some you might not expect, including:

• Supplementary health insurance
• Equity
• Company laptop and accessories provided by PDQ

PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact [e-mail].