Lead Senior Elixir Software Engineer

April 9

🌽 Illinois – Remote

Although this job is listed in Illinois, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $131.4k - $164.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Cars Commerce is a comprehensive online platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and research of vehicles. It provides a wide range of listings for new and used cars, along with tools and resources for customers to compare different makes and models, read reviews, and obtain financing options. With a focus on enhancing the car shopping experience, Cars Commerce connects sellers with local dealers and offers estimates for vehicle sales, ensuring a streamlined process for prospective buyers and sellers alike.

Mobile Marketing • Content Marketing • Data and Analytics

1001 - 5000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of high-performance, API-based backend services that meet service level objectives (SLOs) and scale to support growing business needs. • Own the health and uptime of business-critical systems you and your team build. • Participate in on-call rotations to quickly resolve incidents and conduct postmortems to drive continuous improvement in system reliability. • Partner with product managers, engineering teams, and infrastructure teams to define technical requirements and design scalable, maintainable system architectures that align with business goals and product roadmaps. • Champion and implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automated testing, and security practices throughout the development lifecycle to ensure the reliability and security of production systems. • Ensure comprehensive documentation of API designs, system architectures, and operational procedures to enable internal teams and external customers to easily build and integrate with the APIs in a self-service manner.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience • 8+ years of experience in backend development with a strong focus on designing, building, and operating large-scale and highly available systems, including microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems • Proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced Agile environment • Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and adapt to changing requirements • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production • In-depth experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and gRPC, with the ability to select the appropriate design pattern for different use cases and requirements • Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, caching strategies, and messaging systems, with hands-on experience in implementing these technologies at scale • Proven experience designing and implementing observability solutions (e.g., DataDog) to ensure system reliability, performance, and uptime in production • A solid understanding of security principles, including data encryption, access control, and secure API design • Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, including implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and integrating security throughout the development lifecycle • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing prompt incident resolution and conducting postmortems to improve system reliability • Experience with Elixir and Phoenix framework is a preferred. Candidates without Elixir experience but with a strong background in distributed systems, services, APIs, and backend development who are willing to learn new technologies are encouraged to apply.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up • Generous PTO • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day