Backend Engineer (Elixir) - Remote

Overview

At Chromatic, our mission is to improve the UX of the internet and safeguard the world's pixels. We're building tools that make it impossible to ship broken pixels. Thousands of frontend teams—including BBC, Shopify, and Adobe—use Storybook and Chromatic to map every state of their applications and ensure each one is tested and approved before reaching the billions of people who interact with them daily.

We're seeking a backend engineer to contribute towards the Chromatic Platform API, which powers our web app, CLI, internal services, and Storybook add-ons. Thousands of developers and stakeholders rely on this API, which powers our UI Tests, UI Review workflows, and other features—all to ensure their frontends are regression-free. Our resilient, scalable platform APIs are built using Elixir, TypeScript & GraphQL. We are using MongoDB & PostgreSQL for data storage.

Over the past year, highlights from our team's work include:

• Launched accessibility regression testing to help customers continuously improve the accessibility of their frontends.
• Updated our billing infrastructure to be more scalable for generating detailed usage reports and multiple metrics for usage-based billing.
• Implemented MongoDB sharding and background process optimizations to ensure that our systems continued to scale with increased demand and growth.

We're at a significant moment in our company's history. We're running a successful business at tremendous scale, and your work will immediately impact customers worldwide. We need your expertise to evolve our product and architecture. Shipping with momentum matters, but we also make space to think ideas through carefully and ship the right things. Our diverse team is full of passionate, curious people who can learn, grow, and feel supported in taking on new challenges. We dive into complex problems and create simple, high-quality, delightful solutions. If you're energized by the idea of building systems that prevent bugs from reaching millions of users daily, this is the perfect job for you.

This is a fully remote position on a cross-functional team for individuals based in the mainland US or Canada.

In Short

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend systems to power the Chromatic product.
• Own projects from conception to completion, maintaining momentum toward delivery.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure feature continuity between Chromatic and Storybook.
• Continuously improve existing systems by identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Participate in the team's support rotation, primarily within business hours.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in frontend architecture and developer tooling.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience with modern Typescript and Elixir.
• Self-directed problem solver who can communicate progress and make sound trade-offs.
• Strong opinions, weakly held—someone who drives better outcomes through critique.
• Clear written and verbal communicator in a distributed environment.
• Focused executor who stays accountable to commitments.
• Genuinely invested in developer experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects.
• Supportive team environment.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Continuous learning and growth opportunities.