Software Engineer, Elixir - Telephony

Telnyx; United States; In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Telnyx is seeking an Elixir Telephony Engineer to design, build, and scale APIs and services within our telephony platform. You’ll work across teams to ship features that power global communications, with a focus on performance and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in Elixir and a solid grasp of microservices, distributed systems, and concurrency. We value thoughtful decision-making and a product‑driven mindset in a fast-paced environment.

Competenze

• 2+ years of professional Elixir development experience.
• Strong understanding of microservice architectures and anti-patterns.
• Experience with concurrent and distributed programming.

Mansioni

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Telnyx’s telephony engineering teams.
• Collaborate with engineers to ship large-scale telephony features.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Identify and optimize latency, scalability, and performance of core telephony infrastructure.

Conoscenze

Elixir

Microservices

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Product-driven environment

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About Telnyx

Telnyx is an industry leader that's not just imagining the future of global connectivity—we're building it. From architecting and amplifying the reach of a private, global, multi-cloud IP network , to bringing hyperlocal edge technology right to your fingertips through intuitive APIs, we're shaping a new era of seamless interconnection between people, devices, and applications.

We're driven by a desire to transform and modernize what's antiquated, automate the manual, and solve real-world problems through innovative connectivity solutions. As a testament to our success, we're proud to stand as a financially stable and profitable company. Our robust profitability allows us not only to invest in pioneering technologies but also to foster an environment of continuous learning and growth for our team.

Our collective vision is a world where borderless connectivity fuels limitless innovation. By joining us, you can be part of laying the foundations for this interconnected future. We're currently seeking passionate individuals who are excited about the opportunity to contribute to an industry-shaping company while growing their own skills and careers.

The Opportunity

As an Elixir Telephony Engineer at Telny x, you will create and deploy groundbreaking applications that are part of the Telnyx Telephony platform. Projects often start with a kickstart question and our Engineers lead the way in developing a solution, from high-level system design and prototyping to application development and data integration. As a Telnyx software engineer, you leverage everything around you: Telnyx products, open source technologies, and anything you and your team can build to drive real impact.

AI-assisted engineering is an integral part of how we work. We actively use AI agents to accelerate software development, troubleshoot complex issues, and assist with deployments and operational workflows. We leverage our own Telnyx Inference product to power AI-driven engineering workflows, continuously exploring new ways to improve developer productivity, code quality, and operational efficiency.

You work with users around the globe, where you help our customers by solving their communications challenges. Each mission presents different challenges, from the regulatory environment to the nature of the data to the user population. You will work to accommodate all aspects of an environment to drive real technical outcomes.

You Will:

• - Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Telnyx’s telephony engineering teams.
• - Work with engineers across the company to build new telephony features at large-scale.
• - Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• - Identify, optimize and resolve issues related to latency, scalability, and performance of core telephony infrastructure.

What We're Looking For

• - Have 2+ years of professional software development experience with the Elixir programming language.
• - Have deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.
• - Understand the challenges inherent in concurrent and distributed programming.
• - You take a thoughtful approach to decision making, knowing when to move fast and when to long-term optimize.
• - You want to work in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
• - You keep up to date with the latest technologies and patterns, and enjoy sharing what you’ve learned.

Bonus Points For

• - SIP and other VoIP related protocols and technologies like RTP, WebRTC, ICE, STUN, TURN
• - Consul, Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, Ansible, Grafana, Graylog, Prometheus