Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

<meta><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Job Description:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><i><b><strong style="font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">Before you apply, please note:</strong></b></i></li><li style="font-size:11pt;list-style:none;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="2" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:circle;"=""><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><i><b><strong style="font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;">This is a remote role open to candidates residing in any of PDQ's open states (*see below for a list).</strong></b></i></li></ul></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Why you'll want to be a Senior Software Engineer at PDQ:</strong></b><br><br></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build software that IT pros love. PDQ is a fast-growing SaaS company with a fiercely loyal customer base. Our products manage millions of devices globally, and we’re trusted by tens of thousands of IT teams to deploy software, manage inventory, and remediate vulnerabilities, quickly and reliably.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We’re scaling smart, and you have a voice. We’re growing sustainably, investing in our people, and building a long-term engineering culture. You’ll have autonomy, clear impact, and a seat at the table in building our product. Elixir, Rust, PostgreSQL, Typescript, GCP, by design. Our systems are modern and fun to build. If you love functional programming or systems-level thinking, you’ll feel right at home.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Global impact. As we scale a global team, you’ll work with smart, humble teammates in the U.S., Romania, Slovenia and other locations, shipping real features and solving tough problems in production environments.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Real engineering. We keep processes lean, feedback direct, and overhead minimal. Our engineers focus on shipping great code, mentoring each other, and continuously improving our tools and systems. We lean into AI sensibly and methodically.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Why Join? If you love learning, building, mentoring, and making a real impact on customer productivity while working with modern tech stack, fast growing customer base, and expert team members this is the right time for you to join PDQ!</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What you'll be doing:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Build new features in Elixir and Phoenix LiveView for our billing and subscription management platform, a core internal and customer-facing product that powers quoting, invoicing, subscription management, and monetization across the company.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Work in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Troubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Participate in constructive code reviews and continuous learning.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We're looking for people who have:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience   </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">5+ years experience developing Elixir or Erlang based applications, with much of this experience in a professional setting</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with payment processing and billing systems like Stripe</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Exposure to open-source development is a plus</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Who you are:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork</span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks  </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase    </span></li><li style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely  </span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">PDQ Perks & Benefits:</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you'd expect from working at a very cool tech company, and even some you might not expect, including:</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px="" 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px="" 0px="" 32px;list-style-type:disc;"=""><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">4-Day Work Week</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Equity</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Managers who champion professional development </span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals </span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives</span></li><li style="font-size:14pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact hr@pdq.com.</span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The majority of PDQ's full-time roles do not qualify for sponsorship of employment visas such as the H-1B visa. This applies to scenarios where a candidate might possess temporary work authorization during their schooling or after graduation (e.g., CPT, OPT), but would require H-1B visa sponsorship within a few years of employment to retain eligibility for employment. </span></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;"=""><br></p><p style="font-family:" basel="" grotesk",arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px="" 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;"=""><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">*Currently, candidates </span><i><em style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">who are eligible for fully remote positions</em></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> can live in any of the following US states: AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, OK, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.</span></p>