At Blitz, we're redefining gaming with a revolutionary software to transform the way that gamers play (check out blitz.
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Our app helps gamers improve by analyzing real-time data from your gameplay and relaying it back to you in a way that empowers you to level up your skills.
At Blitz, our value of empowerment extends to our employees as well with the support we give for our team to advance in their careers.
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.
The team is remote across multiple countries and time zones, and the company operates out of Los Angeles, CA.
We operate mostly asynchronously using Kanban.
We consider it a strength if you are online roughly 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
A company focused on growth and shared success
A fast-paced but fun team of passionate people
Cool projects and opportunities to jump ahead of the industry and optimize People initiatives around a great culture
Excellent reputation with customers and industry
Pay and Benefits
Annual salary range: $110 - 150K USD + bonus
Unlimited vacation policy
100% employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision plan for those in CA
401k matching
Company-wide team building events
Salary for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
Blitz is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.