[Hiring] Senior Elixir Engineer @Vic.ai

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with deep Elixir experience to help build and scale the core services that power the Vic.ai platform. You'll work on distributed systems, APIs, background processing, integrations, and platform services that operate at significant scale and reliability requirements. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, AI engineers, and fellow software engineers to design and deliver solutions that directly impact our customers and business. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving challenging technical problems, improving system performance, and helping shape engineering practices in a fast-moving environment.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Elixir and Phoenix.
• Develop highly available APIs and distributed systems that power critical platform functionality.
• Build and optimize data pipelines, workflows, and background job processing systems.
• Collaborate with AI, Data Science, and Product teams to bring intelligent automation capabilities into production.
• Improve system observability, monitoring, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence technical direction across the platform.
• Help establish engineering best practices around testing, deployment, performance, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong production experience with Elixir and the Phoenix framework.
• Experience building and operating scalable backend services and APIs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and relational database design.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated testing strategies.
• Familiarity with Linux environments, cloud infrastructure, and containerized deployments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python or other backend languages.
• Experience working with AWS cloud services.
• Familiarity with message queues, event-driven architectures, and workflow orchestration.
• Experience supporting high-scale SaaS applications.
• Exposure to machine learning or AI-powered products.
• Experience with observability platforms, monitoring, and incident response practices.

Benefits

• Work on meaningful technical challenges at significant scale.
• Help shape the future of AI-powered finance operations.
• Join a highly collaborative team of experienced engineers and builders.
• Competitive compensation and equity opportunities.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work arrangements.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Remote-first culture with opportunities for in-person collaboration.
• Career growth opportunities as we continue to scale.