[Hiring] Software Engineer, Elixir @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, and in that role, you’ll be making some of the most significant decisions for the company.
• Work with other engineers to build delightful features that span various parts of the system, as well as our business, sales, and operations teams to understand and solve our 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.

Requirements

• Take 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.
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and patterns and enjoy sharing what you’ve learned.