Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

We are looking to hire a Senior Backend  Engineer (Elixir) who will be responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of applications.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain existing production code in the field and develop and deliver new enhancements and products to our client base.

• Collaborate with product management, operations, quality, and front-end engineers to deliver the right solution.

• Develop reliable, high-performance service applications using Elixir – Phoenix.

• Provision, configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS.

 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 5 years of programming experience with Elixir

• Must have experience defining the scope and directing the work of mid-level – junior software engineers

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with our API

• Building reusable code and libraries for future use

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability

• Separation of centralized services into microservices

• Experience with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, or similar tools

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software.

• Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)

• Good oral and written communication skills