Staff Software Engineer, Elixir

Job Description

Set technical direction for the product team, lead architecture and design reviews, and build scalable, fault-tolerant Elixir services and event-driven systems. Improve reliability and performance, integrate AI-assisted and agentic workflows, mentor engineers, and contribute to cross-team technical standards.

Requirements: Requires at least 7 years of engineering experience, including 4 or more years of production experience with Elixir, Phoenix, and OTP, plus staff-level technical leadership and experience operating distributed, high-throughput systems. Candidates should also have experience with event streaming, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, observability, and daily use of AI coding tools with sound independent judgment.

Key Skills: Elixir, Phoenix, OTP, Staff-Level Technical Leadership, Distributed Systems, Scalable Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka, PostgreSQL, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Observability, AI-Assisted Development, System Reliability, Technical Mentorship