Remote Elixir Engineer

What will you do?​​

• You will make sure that the backend APIs and systems run rock-solid and our services and third-party integrations communicate harmoniously. That means handling of all potential error cases, down to connection- and request timeouts.
• Sometimes it will also be necessary to write some front end code.
• You will own and be accountable for the services you will be working on, and any other high-leverage projects you take on.​
• You will collaborate with other engineers, product managers and designers to help plan the work ahead​ to ensure we continue to deliver an amazing product and experience to our customers and partners.
• You will structure initial delivery and extension of services into small, actionable tasks to deliver the most value in no time.
• You will be learning from and teaching other engineers; sharing your knowledge, learning about our ecosystem, and reducing knowledge silos.

Who are you?

• You’re passionate about engineering excellence, productivity, and delivering high quality products.
• You love to understand how a product or system works, and enjoy thinking through complex product and system interactions to find gaps, failure modes, and edge cases.
• You enjoy writing and reading code.
• You love to work in, collaborate with, and occasionally lead cross-functional teams.
• Your work-day overlaps with Europe/Zurich office-hours for at least 5h.

What do you need to bring?​​

• You have previous experience as a Software Engineer including both successes and failures (“scars”), which help you make better decisions.
• You have helped define architecture, tooling, strategy, and implementation for systems where failure is not an option.​
• You have deep experience in writing and consuming HTTP and APIs and handling failure scenarios (we are part of a distributed system implementing transactions over HTTP, so thinking through failure modes and state reconciliation is a fact of life for us)

What would be nice to have?

• You’re familiar with other tech from our stack: Postgres, Vue, Svelte, Typescript, AWS, Kubernetes, or Pulumi.
• Experience with other functional programming languages is a plus.