Senior Backend Developer

The Job

You are a professional Backend Engineer that participates in the complete development life cycle of our product. Together with your teammates, you create our ValiotApp Product and take pride in doing so. As a Backend Engineer, you have knowledge of databases, GraphQL APIs, Phoenix, and Elixir.
Your job includes:

• Apply DevOps mindset to improve the Continuous Delivery pipeline.
• Take many abstract ideas and codify them into a viable solution that meets business needs.
• Collaborate with teammates to continuously improve the ways you and your teamwork
• Develop an OTP application on a functional programming language(elixir)
• Manage migrations and optimizations to databases.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies.
• Working with agile methodologies.

Background

• Hands-on experience in Backend development.
• +3 years of proven work experience in software development.
• Robust documentation and writing skills.
• Programming experience in Elixir.
• Experience with packages in Elixir (Absinthe, Phoenix, etc.).

You’re a fast learner who thrives in challenging environments and has a creative yet structured approach to problem-solving. You are a team player who enjoys working in a passionate team who is curious by nature and takes ownership at work.

Responsibilities

• Work with no supervision and delegate specific tasks to the team defining user stories according to the business/project needs.
• Design and implement software and system from requirements to production and commercial deployment.
• Take initiative to address the more significant technical needs of the product you work on.
• Test-driven development
• Responsible and Result oriented: makes sure things get done.
• Contribute to the growth of Valiot by proactively sharing your knowledge to help your colleagues grown.
• Follow coding standards and best practices.
• Assist other teams and developers with usage and understanding of features created.
• Elaboration of user's manual for developed systems.