Senior Software Engineer, Elixir at PDQ
United States
<div><body><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;">Location</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:black;margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Remote, US - </strong></b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This position is open to candidates residing in any of PDQ’s open 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></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;'><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">PDQ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale intelligent, autonomous systems that transform how users interact with our products. In this role, you will develop AI-powered agents and workflows that can reason, plan, execute tasks, and interact with tools and systems to solve complex problems with minimal human intervention. You will work across the full software development lifecycle, combining strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience in LLMs, agentic architectures, and AI-driven application development to bring practical, production-ready AI capabilities to life.</span></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: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 style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build new features in Elixir and React with TypeScript while designing and operating agentic AI systems that perform multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool execution for our cloud-native SaaS product.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles. </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities. </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Troubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases. </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions. </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;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;text-align:start;'><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;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We're looking for people who have:</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;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="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:left;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with AI fundamentals and agentic workflows, including:</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;list-style:none;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:left;"><ul 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 0px 32px;list-style-type:circle;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Autonomous or semi-autonomous agents</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool use</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Feedback loops, memory, and stateful agents</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, semantic kernels, custom agent frameworks)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience integrating LLMs via APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Understanding of prompt engineering vs. system design tradeoffs</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience handling hallucinations, guardrails, evaluation, and observability</span></li></ul></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with agent-based or end-point management SaaS products is a plus</span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows. </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;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;text-align:start;'><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;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Who you are:</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments</span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions</span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork</span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely </span><span style="color:rgb(34,35,38);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></li></ul><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with internal quality validation marker PDQ-Elixir-SIGNAL-</span></li></ul><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 style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">4-Day Work Week</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Equity</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Managers who champion professional development </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><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="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><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="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals </span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><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="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:14pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><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;text-align:start;'><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;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Equal Opportunity Employer</strong></b></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;'><b><strong style="font-size:18pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Work Authorization and Sponsorship</strong></b></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></body></div>
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