Elixir Engineer

Summary

Join Whatnot, the leading livestream shopping platform, as an Elixir Engineer! You'll play a key role in developing and optimizing high-performance, scalable Elixir applications. Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features, ensuring system reliability and scalability. This remote position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, 5+ years of software development experience, and deep knowledge of the BEAM VM or Elixir. You'll contribute to the long-term technical roadmap and work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Whatnot is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.

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

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
• Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution