Senior Software Engineer (Elixir)

Lonely Planet, part of Red Ventures, has been helping people explore the world for over 50 years and is now focused on building innovative digital products for travelers. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to shape the architecture of their Elixir services, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor other engineers while delivering high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable, reliable Elixir services that power core product experiences
• Own the technical design and long-term evolution of key backend services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
• Lead architectural decisions across services, driving consistent patterns for distributed systems, event-driven communication, and service reliability
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to design and deliver new product capabilities
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Drive improvements in system reliability, observability, and operational excellence
• Identify and resolve production bottlenecks, performance issues, and system failures
• Participate in and influence engineering standards, architecture discussions, and technical roadmaps
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and developer tooling
• Lead root cause analysis for complex production issues and implement long-term fixes
• Advocate for security, testing, and operational best practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Stay current with emerging technologies and help guide pragmatic adoption of new tools and approaches

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Significant experience developing production systems in Elixir
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed backend systems
• Experience designing and maintaining GraphQL and RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture, and performance optimization
• Experience building and operating cloud-native systems on AWS
• Experience implementing event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and relational data modeling, including query optimization and performance tuning
• Experience implementing observability practices, including metrics, logging, and monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and leadership
• Ability to mentor engineers and elevate overall team engineering practices
• Product-oriented mindset and understanding of how engineering decisions impact user experience
• Experience scaling high-traffic distributed systems in production environments
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building event-driven systems with AWS services such as EventBridge, SNS, or SQS
• Experience designing platform-level services or internal developer tooling
• Experience with additional backend languages such as Go, Python, or similar
• Familiarity with modern frontend architectures and full-stack product development