Elixir Engineer - Remote

Overview

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

In Short

• Develop and optimize Elixir applications for performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Design and implement fault-tolerant, resilient infrastructure to support critical business features.
• Collaborate between infrastructure and product teams to build and enhance user-facing features.
• Improve observability through logging, tracing, and monitoring, ensuring system health.
• Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap, influencing key architectural decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of the BEAM VM, or the Elixir programming language and Open Telecom Platform.
• Experience building scalable, production-ready applications using Elixir and BEAM.
• Ability to understand business logic code quickly in a larger platform; Python experience preferred.
• Experience in a public cloud environment (AWS, GCP).
• Ability to work across infrastructure and product teams, balancing technical excellence with business needs.
• Previous experience at a hyper-growth startup. You’re an excellent problem solver and a self-starter who can hit the ground running with little direction.
• Excellent ability to understand product requirements in the context of a scalable platform. You first think about users rather than the best technical solution.

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
• Care benefits
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Parental Leave