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Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

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21 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build new product features using Elixir, React, and TypeScript.
  • Design and operate agentic AI systems that support multi-step reasoning, planning, tool execution, feedback loops, memory, and stateful workflows.
  • Integrate LLMs through APIs and develop production-ready AI-powered agents and workflows.
  • Work across the full software development lifecycle in a cloud-native SaaS environment.
  • Troubleshoot bugs, outages, technical issues, and customer support cases.
  • Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions and lightweight technical proposals.
  • Participate in code reviews, automated testing, debugging, and continuous learning.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams in the US and Romania.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience developing Elixir or Erlang-based applications, primarily in a professional setting.
  • Experience with autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, multi-step reasoning, planning, tool use, feedback loops, memory, and stateful agents.
  • Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or custom agent frameworks.
  • Experience integrating LLMs through APIs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Understanding of prompt-engineering versus system-design tradeoffs, hallucination handling, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
  • Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products.
  • Experience with GraphQL, familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and PostgreSQL, and exposure to Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies, defensive client- and server-side web security, test-driven development, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Strong analytical, technical, problem-solving, communication, debugging, design, and code-reading skills.
  • Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and problem spaces and make safe code changes.
  • Experience with agent-based or endpoint-management SaaS products and open-source development is a plus.

Benefits

  • Remote position available to candidates in PDQ’s listed open US states.
  • Four-day work week.
  • Equity.
  • Managers who support professional development.
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.
  • 100% premium coverage for short-term disability, long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Company match on the first 6% of employee deferrals.
  • Flexible paid time off policy.
  • Health Savings Account and wellness incentives.
  • Quarterly company values award.

Tech Stack

ElixirErlangGitGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLPostgreSQLPrometheusReactTypeScript
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About PDQ

201-500 employees

PDQ operates fast-casual restaurants focused on chicken tenders, sandwiches, and salads, serving dine-in, drive-thru, and catering customers. The company is privately held, founded in 2011, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It runs company-operated locations concentrated in Florida and the southeastern United States.

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