Backend Engineer II

Overview

Blitz.gg is a rapidly growing gaming startup that focuses on delivering the best gaming experience for our users. Blitz is horizontally scaling our Elixir backend team to empower more gamers across more games! Join a small, self-motivated, autonomous team that continuously deploys code to millions of active users daily, optimizes the organization's global goals and the daily software delivery process. Help extend a modular, well-encapsulated backend architecture to several new games while ensuring availability and scalability. Operate independently with Elixir and Postgres on production at scale and collaborate on interesting challenges. Our backend system digests and serves 10s of TB of data daily with over 500k database operations per second. 

This position prefers you to be on-site Monday through Thursday in our Los Angeles office, with optional WFH on Fridays. For potential remote hires, we require operating during Pacific Time Zone business hours.

What You’ll Do 

• Implement code that is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others
• Propose solutions for technical roadblocks and elevates information for guidance
• Debug and fixes issues in development, test, and production
• Effective communication especially on team status updates
• Perform code reviews that follow best practices and that are recognized as effective by peers

What It Takes To Be Successful

• 1 - 3 years of experience with Elixir 
• 1 - 2 years of experience with Phoenix, LiveView, Oban, GenStage, and more 
• 1 - 2 years of experience with Postgres, Riak, and Redis
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry a plus
• Full understanding of Git, GitHub and CircleCI

What We Offer/Why Join

• A performance-driven, fast-paced company focused on growth and shared success 
• A team of passionate, dedicated and committed professionals
• Opportunities for professional growth and increased responsibilities
• Excellent reputation with customers and within the industry
• Annual salary range: $110-150k USD + bonus
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plan for those in California
• 401(k) matching
• Company-wide team building events