We are hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer with strong Elixir experience to help scale and evolve our core platform. The role is focused on backend systems, APIs, and platform reliability. You will work closely with engineering leadership to improve performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
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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
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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
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Nice to Have
- Ruby, Python, or JavaScript experience
- High-concurrency or real-time systems experience
- Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-native tooling
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