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Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)
2026-03-24T08:03:29+00:00
Remote
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Consulting
Computer & IT, Science & Engineering
KES
MONTH
2026-03-31T17:00:00+00:00
TELECOMMUTE
8

Background information about the job or company

Remote opens the vast potential of the world for every person, business, and country, building a world where every person and business truly belongs. We empower companies of all sizes to pay and manage full-time and contract workers around the world. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50...

Qualifications or requirements

Must have (professional experience):

  • Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular

Responsibilities or duties

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
  • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
  • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
  • Provide feedback on code reviews
  • Contribute to the shared codebase
  • Debug and solve technical and business issues
  • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
  • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind
  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
  • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
  • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
  • Provide feedback on code reviews
  • Contribute to the shared codebase
  • Debug and solve technical and business issues
  • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
  • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind
  • Elixir
  • Postgres
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Kubernetes (Nice to have)
  • Docker (Nice to have)
  • AWS (Nice to have)
  • Nextjs (Nice to have)
  • React/Vue/Angular (Nice to have)
  • Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular
  • BA/BSc/HND
bachelor degree
12
JOB-69c245513dcf4

Vacancy title:
Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Computer & IT, Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
Remote

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, March 31 2026

Duty Station:
This Job is Remote

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 24 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Background information about the job or company

Remote opens the vast potential of the world for every person, business, and country, building a world where every person and business truly belongs. We empower companies of all sizes to pay and manage full-time and contract workers around the world. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50...

Qualifications or requirements

Must have (professional experience):

  • Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular

Responsibilities or duties

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
  • Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
  • Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
  • Provide feedback on code reviews
  • Contribute to the shared codebase
  • Debug and solve technical and business issues
  • Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
  • Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
  • Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Tuesday, March 31 2026
Duty Station: This Job is Remote
Posted: 24-03-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 24-03-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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