Stord

Senior Engineer, Platform Services

Stord

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsElixirTypeScript

About the role

  • Own the design, development, and operational health of shared services including authentication/authorization, eventing/messaging, API gateways, and shared libraries
  • Establish clear service contracts, SLOs, and integration patterns that product teams can rely on
  • Maintain and improve service documentation, onboarding guides, and self-service tooling for consuming teams
  • Translate architectural direction from the Principal Engineering Group into production-quality implementations
  • Build reference implementations that demonstrate how product teams should integrate with shared services
  • Identify and resolve technical debt in shared services that slows product team velocity
  • Write clean, well-tested, production-ready code—this is a hands-on building role
  • Contribute to the technical strategy for unifying Stord’s product suite into a composable marketplace of services

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems
  • Strong proficiency in at least one of: Elixir or TypeScript. Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn the other quickly
  • Experience designing, building, and operating shared services or platform capabilities consumed by other engineering teams
  • Track record of taking ownership of ambiguously-scoped technical problems and driving them to resolution
  • Comfort working across multiple codebases and navigating unfamiliar systems
  • Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: service contracts, event-driven architectures, API design, and failure modes
  • Clear technical communication—ability to write effective design documents and explain trade-offs to varied audience
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
ElixirTypeScriptAPI designevent-driven architecturesdistributed systemsproduction systemsclean codetechnical debt resolutionservice contractsshared services
Soft Skills
ownershiptechnical communicationproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilitydocumentationdesign documentationtrade-off explanationonboardingself-service tooling