Senior Software Engineer (Elixir)

Company Description

Level All is a well-funded, fast-growing media and technology company. Our mission is to provide every high school and postsecondary school student in the US with the support and guidance needed to realize their lifelong dreams. We are deeply passionate about our mission and are working diligently to tackle some big and previously unsolved problems in Education. We embrace inclusivity and are building a diverse team with people from a wide variety of cultural and life experiences.

Job Description

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Elixir Software Engineer to contribute to our core web platform and supporting applications built in Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, TypeScript, and Tailwind, AlpineJS backed with a Postgres database. 

You’ll work with Engineering, Product, and Design teammates to help ship new features to make our platform more engaging for students and other learners, and more useful and valuable for the schools and community organizations we partner with.

Our Engineering team enjoys collaboration, and you’ll do a mix of pairing, code review, discuss new processes or improvements to our codebase, provide feedback on product and design requirements, and your own deep work on any given day. As a senior engineer, you’ll be leading projects and providing guidance and mentorship to other engineers on the team.

As the number of students using our platform grows, you’ll also help fix any bugs that are found, improve the overall quality of our code through addressing tech debt and automated testing, and reducing complexity.

*This opportunity is for full-time regular employment. Hybrid or remote for the right candidate. *

Qualifications

The successful candidate will:

• Have at least five years of professional software engineering experience

• Have worked with Elixir (or another functional language) in production for at least four years

• Have a solid understanding of OTP

• Have experience building web apps with Phoenix and LiveView

• Have experience designing and consuming APIs

• Have experience working with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)

• Have a strong appreciation for automated tests and testing culture

• A product mindset and driven by helping our users

• Understand software engineering is a team effort and enjoy communicating and collaborating with your team

• Be excited to work in a startup environment with agile-ish processes

• Have worked on a remote or hybrid team before

The annual total compensation for this position is expected to be between $150,000  - $175,000. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee’s job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the indicated range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Level All are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits, and successful candidates may also be eligible for stock-based compensation and/or variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets. 

Our benefits include:

• Hybrid or fully remote work in the US

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D insurance. We also offer cash in lieu of certain benefits.

• 3 weeks vacation per calendar year (in addition to 11 holidays and 5 sick days)

• Employee assistance program and legal assistance

• Pre-tax transit/commuter benefit

Additional Information

• Must be located in the United States.

• Level All does not provide work authorization and/or visa sponsorship.

Level All is an Equal Opportunity Employer.