Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

PDQ

34d • Remote

About The Position

PDQ is a fast-growing SaaS company with a fiercely loyal customer base, building software that IT pros love. Our products manage millions of devices globally, trusted by tens of thousands of IT teams. We are scaling sustainably, investing in our people, and building a long-term engineering culture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have autonomy, clear impact, and a seat at the table in building our product. Our systems are modern and fun to build, utilizing Elixir, Rust, PostgreSQL, Typescript, and GCP. You will work with smart, humble teammates in the U.S., Romania, Slovenia, and other locations, shipping real features and solving tough problems in production environments. We keep processes lean, feedback direct, and overhead minimal, allowing engineers to focus on shipping great code, mentoring each other, and continuously improving our tools and systems. We lean into AI sensibly and methodically. If you love learning, building, mentoring, and making a real impact on customer productivity while working with a modern tech stack, fast-growing customer base, and expert team members, this is the right time for you to join PDQ!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience developing Elixir or Erlang based applications, with much of this experience in a professional setting
• Experience with payment processing and billing systems like Stripe
• Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products
• 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
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to open-source development is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build new features in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView for our billing and subscription management platform, a core internal and customer-facing product that powers quoting, invoicing, subscription management, and monetization across the company.
• 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.

Benefits

• 4-Day Work Week
• Equity
• Managers who champion professional development
• 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives
• Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree