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# Elixir Software Engineer

- **Company:** Driftrock
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Continuous Delivery, Customer Data Management, Data Structures, Web Development, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Ruby, Google Cloud, Erlang, Tailwind, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Functional Programming, Elixir
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/elixir-software-engineer-driftrock-8690551

## About the Role

* A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, whether from a CS degree or equivalent demonstrable grounding in data structures, algorithms, complexity and how systems work under the hood.
 * Some professional backend experience, ideally with Elixir or a similar language, and a genuine drive to deepen your Elixir skills.
 * Some experience with web development, ideally server-rendered UI (we use LiveView with TailwindCSS).
 * A habit of writing tested, maintainable code, and an interest in practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, pairing, code review and retrospectives.
 * A data-driven mindset: you care whether the work genuinely helps customers, not just whether it ships.
 * The judgement to use AI tools well: you use them to go faster, and your CS grounding means you can evaluate what they produce and steer away from suboptimal solutions rather than taking the output on faith.
 * A desire to keep learning and growing, and to collaborate closely in a small team.

Bonus points

 * Production experience with Elixir, Erlang/OTP, Phoenix or LiveView.
 * A background in Ruby or another functional language.
 * Experience with event-driven systems, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL or Redis.
 * Exposure to Kubernetes or Google Cloud.

## Description

* Write well-tested, maintainable code using test-driven development, and take part in pairing and code reviews to keep quality high.
 * Help shape the how and the why, bringing your own viewpoint to technical and product discussions and to our roadmap.
 * Work across our event-driven architecture, building services that talk over APIs and RabbitMQ and handling a growing volume of customer data reliably.
 * Use data and observability to understand how your changes behave in production and whether they're delivering value for customers.
 * Grow your craft, learning from a team that cares about how it works, with a clear path toward senior over time.


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