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
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
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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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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