Senior Software Engineer (Elixir)

Level All • New York, NY

7h • $150,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Elixir Software Engineer to contribute to our core web platform and supporting applications built in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Ash, TypeScript, and Tailwind backed with a Postgres database.
You’ll work with Engineering, Product, and Design teammates to help ship new features to make our platform more engaging for students and other learners, and more useful and valuable for the schools and community organizations we partner with.
Our Engineering team enjoys collaboration, and you’ll do a mix of pairing, code review, discuss new processes or improvements to our codebase, provide feedback on product and design requirements, and your own deep work on any given day. As a senior engineer, you’ll be leading projects and providing guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the team.
As the number of students using our platform grows, you’ll also help fix any bugs that are found, improve the overall quality of our code through addressing tech debt and automated testing, and reducing complexity.
This opportunity is for full-time regular employment. Hybrid or remote for the right candidate.

Requirements

• Have at least five years of professional software engineering experience
• Have worked with Elixir (or another functional language) in production for at least four years
• Have a solid understanding of OTP
• Have experience building web apps with Phoenix and LiveView
• Have experience designing and consuming APIs
• Have experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Have a strong appreciation for automated tests and testing culture
• A product mindset and driven by helping our users
• Understand software engineering is a team effort and enjoy communicating and collaborating with your team
• Be excited to work in a startup environment with agile-ish processes
• Have worked on a remote or hybrid team before

Responsibilities

• Leading projects
• Providing guidance and mentorship to other engineers
• Fix any bugs that are found
• Improve the overall quality of our code through addressing tech debt and automated testing
• Reducing complexity

Benefits

• Hybrid or fully remote work in the US
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D insurance. We also offer cash in lieu of certain benefits.
• 3 weeks vacation per calendar year (in addition to 11 holidays and 5 sick days)
• Employee assistance program and legal assistance
• Pre-tax transit/commuter benefit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed