Elixir Engineer

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WhatNot

๐Ÿ’ต $158k-$245k
๐Ÿ“Remote - United States

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

  • Bachelorโ€™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. Youโ€™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

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