Senior Software Engineer - Elixir

About you

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

The Opportunity

We have backend engineers in almost every team across Telnyx and in that role you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company. You’ll get to work with other engineers to build delightful features that span various parts of the system as well as our business sales and operations teams to understand and solve our users’ pain points.

• Design build and maintain APIs services and systems across Telnyx’s engineering teams.

• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.

• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale.

• Improve engineering standards tooling and processes.

What We're Looking For

• Have 6+ years of professional software development experience with a functional programming language (Elixir/Erlang is preferred).

• Have experience working with relational databases at scale.

• Have deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.

• Have experience with message queues like RabbitMQ and Kafka.

• Understand the challenges inherent in concurrent and distributed programming.

• Have experience with more exotic databases/key-value stores such as ETS Mnesia Cassandra and Redis.

• Have familiarity with Docker Kubernetes Consul Jenkins Prometheus or RabbitMQ.

Bonus Points For

• You take a thoughtful approach to decision-making knowing when to move fast and when to long-term optimize.

• You want to work in a fast-paced product-driven environment.

• You keep up to date with the latest technologies and patterns and enjoy sharing what you’ve learned.

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