Senior Backend Engineer

 

Description:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a diverse team of 9 nationalities, which just happens to be 50% female.

Skills
 

  • Self-management skills.
  • Ability to do deep work
  • To help succeed in your role you’ll collaborate with an exceptional engineering team - early unicorn employees, Typescript and VSCode team engineer, Facebook Hackathon winner, Google Women TechMakers Scholar, etc.

    Experience
  • You are a polyglot developer who has shipped production code in multiple languages. You have your preferences, but will always choose the right tool for the job.
  • Familiarity with: Scala, Elixir and TypeScript.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD ways of shipping code. We do it with: Pulumi, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions.
  • Familiarity with TDD. You understand the value of testing and have maintained a healthy test suite before.

    What You'll Be Doing (daily/monthly Tasks)
  • Contribute code to the backend part of our codebase. It is a Phoenix application written in Elixir, that exposes GraphQL API (using Absinthe).
  • Own features end-to-end, from product definition, through implementation, and to production.
  • Make sound architectural decisions, keeping in mind performance, maintainability and scale.
  • Share your knowledge and passion for code quality with the rest of the team through code reviews and pairings.
  • Grow both personally and professionally. We treat growth seriously, as we believe that our team will thrive only if and when every one of the team members does.
     

The offer

  • Fully remote: work from wherever you want
  • Regular on-sites to bond and explore the world (3-4 a year of 2-3 weeks each)
  • Personalized growth plan & mentorship for every employee (we mean it) + access to the world’s most prestigious entrepreneurship community
  • Great range of perks and benefits
  • Competitive compensation and meaningful equity along with a chance to make a significant contribution to changing the lives of millions of engineers

Organization Silvermine.io
Industry IT / Telecom / Software Jobs
Occupational Category Senior Backend Engineer
Job Location New York,USA
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2026-01-03 2:05 pm
Expires on 2026-02-17