Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR)

Your Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of company’s range of products.

• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.

• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.

• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.

• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.

• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.

• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 

• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.

• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.

• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.

• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.

• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.

• Good knowledge of version management with Git.

• Awareness of TDD. 

• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.

• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.

• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team

• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.

• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.

• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.

• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.

• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.

• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.

• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).

• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.

• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

Location : Work from home.

Job Type : Full Time