Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join In-Charge, a fast-growing startup in vehicle fleet electrification, as a Senior Elixir Engineer. You will build and deploy production web applications using Elixir and Phoenix, collaborating with product and experience teams. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems, ensuring code quality, and participating in code reviews. The ideal candidate possesses a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, 5+ years of software engineering experience, and 3+ years of strong proficiency in Elixir, Phoenix, and related technologies. A successful candidate will also demonstrate experience with GraphQL APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms like AWS and Kubernetes. InCharge offers a competitive salary, yearly bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Masters-degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience
• 3+ years of strong proficiency in Elixir, Phoenix, Ecto, etc
• 1+ year of experience of designing APIs (GraphQL and gRPC) with proper documentation
• 1+ year of experience with RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes
• Good knowledge of micro-service architecture
• Hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir
• Hands-on experience with Helm charts, Kubernetes, Docker containers and CI/CD
• Should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors
• Regularly practice test-driven development & pair programming
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Good base knowledge on topics like multithreading, Data-structures, optimizing algorithms and web-based communication protocols
• You are willing to work in a team spreading different countries and technologies and are clear in verbal and written communication in English
• Open-minded team player, willing to accept feedback and offer suggestions

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production web applications in Elixir and Phoenix, with SQL and GraphQL
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization
• Enthusiasm for code quality and maintaining codebase and system health
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations
• Naturally, you unit test your code before submitting it for review. In addition, you work with the test engineers on the team to discuss test plans and any issues they may discover
• As part of an agile software development team, you join daily standups, sprint meetings and retro's
• You provide transparent insight into your status and progress to the Lead Engineer, so (s)he can manage risks and issues

Preferred Qualifications

An interest in practical software development in a modern cloud platform

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Yearly bonuses
• Benefits package including 401(k) matching contribution
• Health, dental, and vision
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Generous vacation
• Office meals and snacks
• Team building events and activities throughout the year