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Senior Elixir Backend Developer – Phoenix

Purple Drive


Job Location:

Northridge, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 6 October 2026 (8 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title:Senior Elixir Backend Developer - Phoenix
Experience:8-10 years
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Elixir Backend Developer to design develop and maintain scalable high-performance backend applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Elixir Phoenix Framework OTP distributed systems REST APIs microservices databases messaging platforms and cloud-native technologies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design develop and maintain backend services using Elixir and Phoenix Framework.
  • Build scalable fault-tolerant and highly available applications leveraging the BEAM VM.
  • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
  • Design and implement database schemas queries and data models.
  • Implement concurrent and distributed applications using OTP GenServer and Supervisors.
  • Design and implement event-driven architectures and messaging solutions.
  • Optimize application performance reliability scalability and security.
  • Develop integrations with Redis Kafka RabbitMQ and other messaging platforms.
  • Collaborate with frontend developers architects DevOps engineers and product teams.
  • Participate in code reviews troubleshooting production support and technical design discussions.
  • Implement monitoring logging and observability solutions.
  • Follow Agile development practices and contribute to continuous improvement.
Mandatory Technical Skills
  • Elixir
  • Phoenix Framework
  • OTP / GenServer / Supervisors
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices
  • Distributed Systems & Event-Driven Architecture
  • PostgreSQL / MySQL
  • Kafka / RabbitMQ / Redis
  • Git & CI/CD
  • Docker & Kubernetes
Preferred Skills
  • AWS Azure or GCP
  • GraphQL
  • Phoenix LiveView
  • DevOps practices
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Prometheus / Grafana / ELK Stack
  • Cloud-native application development
Primary Technology Stack

Elixir Phoenix OTP GenServer PostgreSQL Redis Kafka RabbitMQ REST APIs Microservices Docker Kubernetes AWS/Azure/GCP