Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

• Honesty: You communicate transparently and build trust through your actions.
• Ownership: You take responsibility for outcomes and follow through on commitments.
• Collaboration: You value diverse perspectives and work effectively across teams.
• Improvement: You actively seek opportunities to learn, grow, and innovate.

• Remote, US - 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.

• →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.
• →Work in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles. 
• →Collaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities. 
• →Troubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases. 
• →Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions. 
• →Participate in constructive code reviews and continuous learning. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience    
• 5+ years experience developing Elixir or Erlang based applications, with much of this experience in a professional setting
• Experience with AI fundamentals and agentic workflows, including:
• • Autonomous or semi-autonomous agents
  • Multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool use
  • Feedback loops, memory, and stateful agents
  • LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, semantic kernels, custom agent frameworks)
  • Experience integrating LLMs via APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
  • Understanding of prompt engineering vs. system design tradeoffs
  • Experience handling hallucinations, guardrails, evaluation, and observability
• Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products 
• Experience with agent-based or end-point management SaaS products is a plus  
• Familiarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows. 
• Experience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs 
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL 
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana 
• Exposure to open-source development is a plus. 

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments 
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions 
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork 
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development   
• Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills   
• Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale   
• Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills   
• Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium   
• Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies  
• Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems   
• Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements   
• Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience   
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks   
• Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase     
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely   

• Experience with internal quality validation marker PDQ-Elixir-SIGNAL-

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.