Elixir Software Engineer

The Driftrock engineering team is looking for a software engineer to grow our team. We use a pragmatic Elixir + LiveView stack to solve real-world marketing challenges for our B2B customers. We use XP, TDD, and Pair Programming to get high-quality work into production several times a day.

You will be expected to:

• Be passionate about product and technology, asking questions around when working on features.
• Challenge our roadmap and help us figure out the 'how' and 'why' behind our core product and new features.
• Be an active member of our engineering team, working together with the other developers helping them grow their skills in a productive and challenging environment.
• Have a strong data-driven mindset when assessing the value that our work has for customers.

About the company: Driftrock is a marketing technology business founded in 2013 on a mission to become the world leading automotive & e-Mobility marketing platform. We’re a team of passionate, friendly, driven people who work hard, but also believe that you can do that whilst still enjoying life! We have a balanced, flexible culture where we have fun and achieve big things for the company and our awesome clients.

About the team & technology: You will be joining a growing product team, with engineers who are deeply passionate about technology and the way they work, and you will have a chance to make a huge impact on the culture and practices of the team, and the wider company. We believe in continuous improvement and we are constantly optimising how we work and communicate. We plan our work weekly, using a lean approach (a mixture of Kanban and eXtreme Programming). This way we are able to deploy several times a day, allowing us to have a short feedback cycle on our changes. We have a data-driven mindset and we use data to drive decisions on everything from user story prioritisation to company strategy. We also strongly believe in observability and keeping a close eye on how our product is behaving. Our platform is made of multiple services built in Elixir, talking to each other via APIs and RabbitMQ and storing data in Postgresql and Redis. All services are hosted on Kubernetes and Google Cloud.

What we’re currently working on: We are working on a project to introduce Lead qualification through various communication channels and tracking everything in our Single Customer View. Together with the growing volume of data that we process for our customers this is a great opportunity for us to improve and optimise parts of our event driven architecture to be able to process existing and planned workloads without any issues. We are also working on improving our style guide, rebranding and getting an amazing UX working with LiveView.

You should have:

• 3+ years of strong backend experience and some experience with basic web development languages/frameworks (we use LiveView and SSR with TailwindCSS).
• Professional experience in Elixir or a similar language with a strong drive to learn Elixir.
• A desire to continuously learn to improve your technical, communication and other soft skills.
• A value for and enjoyment in working in a small team, collaborating closely with other engineers as well as members of other teams.
• The ability to provide new and diverse viewpoints for our technical and product discussions and be comfortable making technical decisions.
• An interest in agile practices such as continuous delivery, TDD, pair programming, code reviews and retrospectives.
• Some experience mentoring engineers and a view on how to create a productive team.
• A keen interest in ensuring there is a high standard of quality and security in the software we produce as a team.
• The ability to work in the same timezone as the rest of the team (flexible).

This is a fully remote role. Make use of a flexible working environment, with some travel requirements for company or team meetings when necessary. A holiday entitlement of 24 days, increasing a day each year, capped at 28.

Benefits include:

• Budget to attend conferences or courses to further your development.
• Flexibility to take courses or time on personal goals.
• Maternity and Paternity leave package.
• Health plan covering medical cover as well as dental, vision, hearing, mental health, cancer, rewards points and more.
• Share options in the company with very favourable option agreements.
• A company pension scheme contribution.
• Discounts and perks with CharlieHR.
• Life Assurance and Income Protection policies.
• Electric Car Scheme.
• Salary Sacrifice.

Certain benefits may be available exclusively to employees based in the UK. While international team members are onboarded via an Employer of Record, we strive for benefit parity across the globe. Regardless of your location, our standard package includes a comprehensive health plan, pension contributions, paid time off (including local bank holidays), share options, and maternity/paternity leave. Combined with our flexible working culture, we ensure every employee feels like a full and valued member of the team.