Elixir Engineer

Summary

Join Whatnot, the leading livestream shopping platform, as an Elixir Engineer! You will play a key role in developing and optimizing high-performance, scalable applications. This remote position requires 5+ years of software development experience and deep knowledge of Elixir and the BEAM VM. You will collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features, ensuring system health and contributing to the long-term technical roadmap. Whatnot offers a competitive salary ($158,000-$245,000/year), comprehensive benefits, and equity. We foster a collaborative culture and value innovation, making this an exciting opportunity to shape the future of e-commerce.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Deep knowledge of the BEAM VM, or the Elixir programming language and Open Telecom Platform
• Experience building scalable, production-ready applications using Elixir and BEAM
• Ability to understand business logic code quickly in a larger platform
• Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP)
• Ability to work across infrastructure and product teams, balancing technical excellence with business needs
• Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize Elixir applications for performance, reliability, and scalability
• Design and implement fault-tolerant, resilient infrastructure to support critical business features
• Collaborate between infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features
• Improve observability through logging, tracing, and monitoring, ensuring system health
• Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap, influencing key architectural decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Python experience
• Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Home office setup allowance
• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• Monthly allowance for wellness
• Annual allowance towards Childcare
• Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence