Senior Fullstack Engineer
Workera
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Develop a strong understanding of Workera's AI-powered platform, customers, and business model
- Get up to speed on our development process and complete a scoped starter project that touches every relevant part of the codebase — with a particular focus on backend systems
- Identify and begin using AI tools and agentic coding workflows to improve your personal velocity
- Identify opportunities to use AI tools and automation to increase leverage and impact in your function
- Actively lead and deliver your first full project, owning backend architecture, build, and rollout end-to-end
- Deeply understand our market position and communicate clearly in cross-functional discussions
- Contribute to shaping best practices in operating as an AI-first engineering organization
- Architect and own backend systems that are robust, performant, and built to scale
- Confidently build and ship AI-powered features, troubleshoot production issues full-stack, and shape new technical and product initiatives
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend specialization, in a SaaS or startup environment — full-stack capability is valued, but your heart is in the backend
- Practical experience building scalable backend systems top to bottom — ideally in Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL; Go, Erlang, or Clojure backgrounds also considered; a proven ability to learn new technologies quickly is a must if you don't have Elixir experience
- Day-to-day use of AI tools to enhance personal productivity (e.g., Claude Code or equivalent); bonus for experience building user-facing GenAI features
- Deep expertise delivering platform-critical, high-stakes backend projects where robustness, performance, and troubleshooting are non-negotiable
- Strong user and customer orientation — you understand and optimize user flows, not just code
- Willingness and ability to contribute on the frontend when needed (Phoenix + React)
- 2+ years working with a fully remote, async team
- Comfort working in an AI-first environment where intelligent automation and experimentation are part of daily operations with demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, or equivalent) to improve productivity, insight generation, or decision-making
- Strong systems thinking — ability to see how your backend work connects to a broader AI-driven platform and enterprise customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Benefits
- You are free to choose working hours that suit you best, as long as there is an overlap with your team for most of the day.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentElixirPhoenixPostgreSQLGoErlangClojureAI toolsscalable systemsfull-stack development
Soft Skills
user orientationcommunication skillssystems thinkingleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityproductivity enhancementcross-functional communicationinitiative