At Truckstop, we have transformed the entire freight-moving lifecycle with our SaaS solutions. From freight matching to payments and everything in between, we are the trusted partner for carriers, brokers, and shippers alike. We lead this industry forward with our One Team mindset committing to principles such as assume positive intent, have each other’s back, and be your authentic self. Our drive for greatness produces high expectations, yet our regard for humans is even higher. Join a team of brilliant minds and generous hearts who care deeply about other's success.
The Opportunity
As a Senior Elixir Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building the critical infrastructure to process transactions, developing internal automation tools to streamline payments, and implementing the underlying functionality for features that our clients love. You’ll not only be enhancing existing functionality, but also have the opportunity to solve new problems as we continue to scale and grow.
What Excites You
● You love creating delightful user experiences by leveraging your ability to build clean, maintainable, and high-quality products.
● You thrive working with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions for complex business problems.
● You have a passion for continuous learning and effective team communication, as well as listening to customers and internal users to create a great experience.
● You’re transparent and believe that open communication is critical for team success.
● You want to work with a collaborative team that supports one another and helps each other grow.
● You want to join a team that is going beyond a Phoenix API project, taking advantage of the language's unique strengths in solving complex, concurrent, and distributed problems.
● “Eventual Consistency” sounds like an exciting challenge to program against.
What Excites Us
● You're a curious, scrappy, motivated innovator who is excited about diving into a growing business unit and taking ownership of important platform features and capabilities.
● Our teams are small, you are a generous communicator and your peers view you as a team player who embodies the philosophy that we win together.
● You're a solid developer who obsesses over building technology that delights your users.
● You care about reliability and are comfortable supporting, monitoring, and deploying applications.
● You work small and seek to shorten feedback loops
● You have strong opinions about how software is built, but you're open to alternatives.
● You are unafraid to step out of your comfort zone and work across different parts of the product.
● You foster personal growth and professional development in yourself and your peers.
● Deep experience building and scaling large applications, preferably using Elixir and React.
● Experience working with B2B software products, particularly in the freight, logistics, or finance industries.
Position Requirements:
● Minimum of 6 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant hands-on experience in Elixir-based systems
● Hands on experience with Elixir, Phoenix, and Postgres
● Strong understanding of functional programming and event-driven architectures
● Deep functional knowledge or hands on experience building APIs, CQRS, PubSub
● Experience working with Google Cloud Platform or other cloud services a plus
● Proactively influence team communication and team dynamics to accomplish the tactical mission of the squad
● Collaborates with others across teams to remove impediments and blockers
● Strong debugging and diagnostic skills
● Able to articulate complex technical topics to non-technical audiences
● Skilled at clearly documenting design and concept ideas
● Skilled at providing and receiving feedback at all levels across the organization
At Truckstop we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for a yearly bonus. Final salary is based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, education/training, certifications, key skills, experience, internal peer equity as well as business considerations.
The above description covers the most significant duties performed but does not include other related occasional work that may be assigned or is completed by the employee.
Truckstop provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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