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Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

RemoteWorkFromHome, Free State, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world.

About the position

You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals.

This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences.

Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker and a CI / CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS.

What this job can offer you

  • Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
  • Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
  • A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits.
  • A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
  • Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

What you bring

Must have (professional experience) :

  • Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • CI / CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Nice to have

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React / Vue / Angular
  • Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
  • Actively participate in product work in the team : provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
  • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
  • Provide feedback on code reviews
  • Contribute to the shared codebase
  • Debug and solve technical and business issues
  • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
  • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind
  • Practicals

  • Reporting line : Engineering Team Leader
  • Team : Engineering
  • Location : Anywhere in the World
  • Start date : As soon as possible
  • Remote Compensation Philosophy

    Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

    The base salary range for this full-time position is between USD 51,850 to USD 116,650.

    Benefits

  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
  • How you’ll plan your day (and life)

    We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings).

    You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

    How to apply

  • Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  • We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardized language we use here at Remote.
  • If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
  • We are an equal employment opportunity employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

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