Backend Developer – Integrations
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Software Engineer – Elixir
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $104,100 - $130,150 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
AWSDistributed SystemsDockerElixirKubernetesMicroservicesPostgres
About the role
- Develop Scalable and Observable Systems: Work with a lead or senior engineer to implement and build high-performance, API-based backend services that meet performance and availability goals.
- Support Production Systems: Help maintain the health and uptime of business-critical systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations to help resolve incidents and assist with postmortems to improve system reliability.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to understand requirements and contribute to the design of maintainable systems that align with business goals.
- Contribute to DevSecOps Practices: Help to implement and maintain continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and security practices to ensure the reliability and security of production systems.
- Document and Share Knowledge: Contribute to the documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to help internal teams and external customers easily understand and use the APIs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- At least 2-5 years of experience in backend development with a focus on building and operating systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems
- Experience delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced Agile environment
- Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively on cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements
- Hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying and monitoring applications
- Experience building RESTful APIs and authoring API documentation
- Experience using PostgreSQL or other relational databases
- Familiarity with implementing observability solutions (e.g., in DataDog) to ensure system reliability and performance
- Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Github Actions) and automated testing
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems
- Experience with Elixir and the Phoenix framework is a plus. Candidates without Elixir experience but with a background in distributed systems, services, APIs, and backend development who are willing to learn new technologies are encouraged to apply.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Generous PTO
- Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
- Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend developmentmicroservices architectureAPIsevent-driven systemsRESTful APIsPostgreSQLobservability solutionsDevSecOps practicesCI/CD pipelinesElixir
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationinterpersonal skillsadaptabilitycross-functional teamwork
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
