Senior Software Engineer - Python/Elixir SaaS Growth Role in Wilmington
Career Level & Market Positioning:
This is a genuine Senior Engineer role requiring 6+ years of experience — not inflated. AlertMedia is a PE-backed, high-growth SaaS company with 4,000+ enterprise clients, which signals stability and scaling challenges that sharpen senior engineering skills. The dual Python/Elixir stack is relatively rare and valuable, as Elixir expertise commands a market premium globally.
Skills Development:
This role offers strong growth across:
AI-augmented engineering
— daily use of Claude, Codex, and emerging tools positions you ahead of the curve in an AI-first engineering culture
Cloud infrastructure
— AWS, Docker, Kubernetes experience in a production-grade SaaS environment
Architectural ownership
— explicit expectation to make architectural decisions and drive initiatives from design to implementation
Full-stack breadth
— Python/Elixir backend plus Next.js/React frontend exposure
Culture Signals:
"Best Workplace for 10 Years in a Row" is a meaningful green flag, as is the 1:1 career development investment and mentorship culture. The language immersion program signals a genuinely international team. The fast-paced framing appears twice — a mild yellow flag for work-life balance, though the generous PTO and WFH stipend offset this.
Compensation:
No salary range is published, which is increasingly a red flag in a transparent market. Candidates should benchmark against US-company-paying-Mexico-rates norms and negotiate accordingly — typically *% above local market for PE-backed US SaaS companies hiring in LATAM.
Do work that matters.
At AlertMedia , we help organizations protect their people, operations, and brand. Our modern




Risk Intelligence and Response platform
empowers teams to detect emerging threats, assess impact, and respond with confidence. We believe building resilience should be simpler—and it starts with bringing critical information and workflows together in one unified platform.
Our core values drive us in our important mission of keeping people safe & informed:
We're humans not robots
Customers always come first
We work better together
Simplicity is our strength
Our reputation is priceless
Hard work pays off
As one of the fastest-growing software companies in the country, AlertMedia is looking for a
Sr. Software Engineer
with strong backend engineering experience and the ability to contribute across the full stack. This role is an opportunity to use a wide variety of design and technical web skills to help us develop and support features for the AlertMedia product suite. As an AI-forward company, we actively use modern AI tools such as Claude, Codex, and other emerging technologies to help our engineers work smarter, move faster, and build better products.
Who you are:
You thrive in a collaborative engineering environment that plays to everyone's strengths with a willingness to work across the entire stack. You have experience developing scalable production applications using modern backend technologies, ideally Python or Elixir. You care about the quality of your work,



the impactful product you help build, and the team you help build it with. You have AWS (or other cloud) experience and are willing to learn from people with both more and less experience than you. You are a user of AI-assisted development tools that improve engineering workflows, code quality, and team productivity.
What you get to do every day:
Design and develop features for the AlertMedia product suite
Learn the AlertMedia platform and tools, and its uses for our customers
Use AI-enabled tools such as
Claude, Codex
, and other emerging platforms to support development, problem-solving, documentation, and productivity
Work in an Agile-based environment using tools like Git, JIRA, Jenkins, and Slack
Contribute to technical innovation by identifying opportunities to improve our products, architecture, and engineering practices
Use strong verbal and written communication skills in collaboration with other engineering and product teams
Contribute to AlertMedia's culture, values and vision for the future
What you bring to the role:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field preferred
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and writing unit and integration tests
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and maintaining applications in AWS or similar cloud environments
Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, or similar database and caching technologies
Experience making architectural decisions, evaluating technical tradeoffs, and owning engineerin

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