[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Telnyx

Role Description

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems.

The Opportunity:

• Have backend engineers in almost every team across Telnyx, making significant decisions for the company.
• Work with other engineers to build delightful features that span various parts of the system.
• Collaborate with business, sales, and operations teams to understand and solve users’ pain points.
• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across Telnyx’s engineering teams.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with a functional programming language (Elixir/Erlang is preferred).
• Experience working with relational databases at scale.
• Deep knowledge of microservice architecture patterns and anti-patterns.
• Experience with message queues like RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• Understanding of the challenges inherent in concurrent and distributed programming.
• Experience with more exotic databases/key-value stores such as ETS, Mnesia, Cassandra, and Redis.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Jenkins, Prometheus, or RabbitMQ.

Bonus Points For

• A thoughtful approach to decision-making, knowing when to move fast and when to long-term optimize.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
• Keeping up to date with the latest technologies and patterns and enjoying sharing what you’ve learned.