Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

Accountabilities:: Software Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable software features using Elixir and React with TypeScript, contributing to the evolution of a cloud-native SaaS platform. AI and Agentic Systems Engineering: Build and operate intelligent AI-powered agents and workflows capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, autonomous task execution, and interaction with external tools and systems. AI Workflow Integration: Implement agentic architectures incorporating memory, state management, feedback loops, and tool execution to deliver reliable and practical AI-driven capabilities. LLM Integration: Integrate large language models through APIs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and comparable providers, while designing effective orchestration strategies and balancing prompt engineering with broader system architecture. AI Reliability and Evaluation: Implement appropriate safeguards, evaluation mechanisms, hallucination mitigation strategies, and observability practices to ensure AI applications remain reliable, secure, and predictable. Continuous Integration and Delivery: Work within an established CI/CD environment, following agile development practices and regularly delivering tested, production-ready code. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering colleagues across the United States and Romania to coordinate priorities, share technical knowledge, and deliver high-quality solutions. Technical Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve software defects, production incidents, service outages, and customer-reported technical issues, ensuring system stability and performance. Technical Research and Innovation: Research emerging technologies, prototype new solutions, evaluate technical approaches, and contribute to architectural and engineering decisions. Code Quality and Reviews: Participate in constructive code reviews, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Testing and Documentation: Develop automated tests, support test-driven development, and create technical proposals, diagrams, specifications, and documentation to communicate implementation decisions. Security and Scalability: Apply defensive security principles across client-side and server-side applications while designing lightweight, maintainable solutions that scale effectively. Requirements: Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical professional experience. Software Engineering Experience: At least 5 years of experience developing applications using Elixir or Erlang, with substantial experience in professional software development environments. AI and Agentic Architecture Expertise: Practical understanding of AI fundamentals and experience building autonomous or semi-autonomous agents capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool utilization. LLM Orchestration: Experience with large language model orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or custom-built agent frameworks. LLM API Integration: Hands-on experience integrating AI models through APIs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar providers. AI System Reliability: Understanding of prompt engineering, system design trade-offs, hallucination management, guardrails, model evaluation, and AI application observability. Frontend Development: Demonstrated experience building intuitive, responsive, and scalable user interfaces and user experiences for SaaS applications. API Development: Familiarity with GraphQL for designing, developing, and consuming APIs. Cloud and Database Technologies: Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL is desirable. Monitoring and Observability: Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. Development Methodologies: Familiarity with agile software development, CI/CD workflows, Git version control, branching strategies, and modern engineering practices. Testing and Quality Assurance: Experience with test-driven development, automated testing frameworks, debugging, and maintaining high software quality standards. Security Awareness: Understanding of defensive security strategies for web applications, including both client-side and server-side systems. Technical Problem-Solving: Strong analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to understand complex problem spaces and implement safe, effective code changes. Adaptability: Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar codebases, identify underlying issues, and contribute meaningful improvements with minimal guidance. Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate user requirements into lightweight technical proposals, diagrams, specifications, and actionable solutions. Ownership and Accountability: Demonstrated ability to take responsibility for projects, drive initiatives forward, and consistently deliver on commitments. Collaboration and Integrity: Strong interpersonal skills, transparency, honesty, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams. Continuous Improvement: A proactive approach to learning, innovation, professional development, and delivering meaningful business value through engineering. Additional Advantages: Experience with endpoint management or agent-based SaaS products, open-source software development, or related technology ecosystems is considered a plus. Benefits: Four-Day Work Week: Enjoy a reduced four-day working week, supporting greater work-life balance and flexibility. Remote Work: Fully remote working arrangement within eligible US states. Equity Participation: Opportunity to participate in the company's equity program. Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents. Disability and Life Insurance: 100% premium coverage for short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage. Retirement Savings: Employer matching contributions on the first 6% of employee retirement plan deferrals. Flexible Paid Time Off: Flexible PTO policy designed to support personal needs, rest, and work-life balance. Health and Wellness: Access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and additional wellness incentives. Professional Development: Managers who actively support career growth, technical learning, and professional development. Employee Recognition: Quarterly company values awards nominated by team members to recognize outstanding contributions and positive workplace impact. Collaborative Culture: Work in an environment that values honesty, ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and diverse perspectives.