Backend Engineering & System Design 8+ years of backend software engineering experience Designing and operating large-scale, highly available, distributed systems Microservices architecture Event-driven architecture API design and development Scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability best practices Strong software architecture and technical leadership capabilities Elixir (Critical Requirement) 2+ years of hands-on experience with Elixir Deep understanding of the Elixir runtime/ecosystem Building production-grade backend services using Elixir Cloud & Infrastructure Strong AWS experience Docker containerization Kubernetes orchestration Production deployment, monitoring, and scaling APIs & Service Communication REST APIs GraphQL gRPC Ability to select the appropriate protocol/pattern based on use case Data Layer PostgreSQL Database design and optimization Caching strategies Messaging & Event Streaming Kafka Designing and operating Kafka-based systems at scale Observability & Reliability Data Dog Monitoring Logging Alerting SLO/SLA-driven operations Dev SecOps CI/CD pipelines Automated testing Secure software development practices Security integration throughout the SDLC Security Secure API design Access control Data encryption General application security principles AI-Assisted Development High proficiency with Claude Code or similar AI coding tools Demonstrated use of LLMs to improve development productivity Collaboration & Communication Cross-functional collaboration Technical documentation Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 2.

Good-to-Have Skillset These are valuable differentiators but appear secondary to the core backend/Leadership & Strategic Thinking Defining technical roadmaps Long-term architecture planning Domain ownership Technical mentorship and guidance Must Have Elixir (2+ years) Backend Engineering (8+ years) AWS + Docker + Kubernetes Kafka PostgreSQL REST / GraphQL / gRPC APIs Data Dog Observability CI/CD + Dev SecOps Distributed Systems & Microservices AI-assisted development (Claude Code or equivalent) Nice to Have Technical leadership/architecture ownership Platform engineering mindset Agile delivery experience Advanced documentation practices Reliability engineering and operational excellence Cross-functional stakeholder management

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