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Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) at Remote

  • Job Type Remote
  • Qualification BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience
  • Location Nairobi
  • Job Field ICT / Computer

Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) at Remote

Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

What this job can offer you

  • Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
  • Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company’s growth.
  • A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits.
  • A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
  • Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

What you bring

Must have (professional experience):

  • Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
  • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
  • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
  • Provide feedback on code reviews
  • Contribute to the shared codebase
  • Debug and solve technical and business issues
  • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
  • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Remote on job-boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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