Fully Remote Sr. Dev Lead / EM (Elixir) - Community.com: Conversation Platform

Company: Community.com

Type of role: Full time, Fully Remote anywhere in the U.S. and Canada

Comp: $150k - $215k (highly dependent on experience + work location) + Attractive Series A Equity + various other benefits

Role title: Senior Dev. Lead / Technical EM (Backend focused)

Tech Stack: Elixir, Golang, Python, AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, RabbitMQ

About the role and your impact:

As a Senior Development Lead on the Integrations pod, you will be leading a team of experienced Elixir engineers to integrate our text messaging platform to SMS carriers and SaaS APIs. The pod owns pivotal services that process our high volume inbound/outbound traffic. You and your team will build on top of our cutting-edge event sourcing system that connects our users via SMS messages, mobile and web apps.

You will be working with a distributed, remote-first team that spans North America, Europe, and beyond. Your day-to-day will focus on growing a healthy team, writing code, pairing with other engineers, and working with stakeholders to deliver innovative features. Last but not least - we are growth-oriented, both as a company and as individuals: we take learning seriously and invest in growing our skills and our team's capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of features with an obsessive focus on solving customer problems and operational excellence


• Work with senior members of technical staff to drive architectural and best practices decisions


• Write code and pair with engineers (more coding responsibilities when the team is small)


• Grow and retain a team of talented engineers; maintain our healthy engineering culture.


• Manage your team's roadmap in collaboration with product managers and designers.

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years experience in microservices development with a recent focus on Elixir or Golang and related technologies.


• 2+ years in leading a SaaS engineering team


• MarTech integrations (e.g. Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot) experience a big plus.


• Strong desire to be on the Engineering Management track


• Ability to organize and communicate complex projects that involve cross-functional stakeholders.


• A track record of shipping on time and at quality in agile environments.


• A positive attitude about what you do


• Bonus: Event Sourcing Systems, Twilio/Open Market integrations experience.

Our stack

• Our backend is largely asynchronous, written in Elixir, running in Docker containers, on a distributed, scheduled platform on AWS. We work w/ PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, and RabbitMQ among others.


• The front-ends are in React, iOS, and Javascript.