Elixir Backend Engineer

What you will do
Ideation of solutions in discovery and shaping stages .
System design, code contribution, and implementation of new features and bug fixing for our product .
Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents that affect the operation
Pull requests approvals, aligned with development best practices

Technical knowledge
Expert in Functional Programming
Intermediate in Docker & Kubernetes, including building, shipping, and running applications, and knowledge of component orchestration, deployments, services, pods, and health checks.
Intermediate in PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Intermediate in Kafka, pipelines, topics, partitions, brokers
Basic in Redis
Basic on Kong API Gateway or similar

Architectural knowledge
System Designs
Micro-services-oriented architecture
Cloud-native architecture
Event-driven architecture
Security principles, data encryption
Design patterns applied to systems architecture

Soft skills
High abstraction capacity to understand business problems and design scalable solutions for them
Problem-Solving
Effective Communication
Leadership
Adaptability
Team Collaboration

Language
English

Experience
5+ years of experience in Software Engineering positions
More than 3 years of experience in Elixir or in a functional programming language like Go, Rust, Scala.
Building SaaS products
Working on startups