Senior Software Engineer, Elixir
True Anomaly2 months ago
Denver, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex distributed-system features end to end across satellite command and control, mission planning, mission data processing, and data analysis systems.
- Drive architectural direction for Elixir/OTP systems, including fault tolerance, concurrency, clustering, state management, and scalability patterns.
- Identify and resolve technical debt, reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and distributed-system issues.
- Set code-quality and testing standards through implementation, rigorous code review, and reference-quality code.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, design discussions, and constructive code review.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, backend, space operations, and astrodynamics engineering teams on system-wide architecture.
- Break complex work into iterative increments, document technical decisions, and improve team onboarding and shared knowledge.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Expert-level Elixir and OTP knowledge, including BEAM internals, scheduling, process architecture, supervision strategies, and runtime characteristics.
- Deep experience designing resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems and service architectures at scale.
- Hands-on experience with ExUnit, property-based testing, and integration testing for distributed systems.
- Fluency with gRPC, REST, and WebSocket-based services, including API design and integration debugging.
- Ability to work across the stack, understand infrastructure constraints, and collaborate across engineering disciplines.
- Experience with Git-based workflows, high-quality commits, pull requests, and collaborative code review.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar discipline.
- Preferred: technical-lead or primary-backend experience on products with real users and production constraints.
- Preferred: experience with real-time systems, large-scale data processing, mission-critical operations, OAuth2, role-based access controls, PostgreSQL, observability, and distributed tracing.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), and parental leave.
- Equity and a generous stock-options package.
- Platinum healthcare and flexible work hours/location within an onsite role.
- Onsite position for candidates based near Denver, Colorado, or Long Beach, California.
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About True Anomaly
True Anomaly builds spacecraft and software for space defense, including autonomous satellites, precision-sensing payloads, mission command-and-control software, and space-based interceptors for national security and commercial operators. Founded in 2022 by former U.S. Space Force members, it is privately held and headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. The company sells hardware, AI-enabled flight software, and mission operations services to U.S. and allied defense programs and space infrastructure providers.