Senior Software Engineer (Elixir)

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Lonely Planet team. In this role, you will shape the architecture of Elixir services that power their digital products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable 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