Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Elixir)

Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Elixir)

Remote | United States

A remote-first SaaS company building transaction-driven, real-time software is hiring a Senior Software Engineer with strong Elixir experience to help scale and evolve its core platform.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor. role focused on backend systems, APIs, and platform reliability. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership to improve performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain backend services using Elixir and Phoenix
• Design and support scalable, fault-tolerant systems
• Develop and maintain APIs, GraphQL preferred
• Improve performance, reliability, and observability
• Contribute to architectural decisions and system evolution
• Troubleshoot complex production issues
• Write clean, testable, maintainable code
• Participate in code reviews and engineering best practices

Required Experience

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Elixir and Phoenix required
• Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang/OTP
• Experience supporting production SaaS systems
• Cloud experience, AWS required
• Strong database fundamentals, PostgreSQL required
• Proficient with Git
• Comfortable working in a remote, distributed team
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted development tools, used responsibly

Nice to Have

• Ruby, Python, or JavaScript experience
• High-concurrency or real-time systems experience
• Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-native tooling