Improving outcomes for High School students and leveling the playing field for all.

Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

New York

Posted

30 days ago

Salary

$150K - $175K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishElixirPostgresType Script

Job Description

• Contribute to our core web platform and supporting applications built in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Ash, TypeScript, and Tailwind backed with a Postgres database. • Work with Engineering, Product, and Design teammates to help ship new features to make our platform more engaging for students and other learners, and more useful and valuable for the schools and community organizations we partner with. • Lead projects and provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the team. • Help fix any bugs that are found, improve the overall quality of our code through addressing tech debt and automated testing, and reducing complexity.

Job Requirements

Have at least five years of professional software engineering experience
Have worked with Elixir (or another functional language) in production for at least four years
Have a solid understanding of OTP
Have experience building web apps with Phoenix and LiveView
Have experience designing and consuming APIs
Have experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
Have a strong appreciation for automated tests and testing culture
A product mindset and driven by helping our users
Understand software engineering is a team effort and enjoy communicating and collaborating with your team
Be excited to work in a startup environment with agile-ish processes
Have worked on a remote or hybrid team before

Benefits

Hybrid or fully remote work in the US
Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D insurance. We also offer cash in lieu of certain benefits.
3 weeks vacation per calendar year (in addition to 11 holidays and 5 sick days)
Employee assistance program and legal assistance
Pre-tax transit/commuter benefit