Elixir Backend Engineer

Location: Remote; candidates should be based in North America, Latin America, or Europe. Regular afternoon overlap with Central European Time is expected, with most meetings scheduled from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CET.

Approximate annual compensation: Canada: 105,000–129,100 CAD; United States: 120,000–155,000 USD; Latin America: 50,000–65,000 USD. European compensation depends on location, experience, and local market rates.

Company

hirify.global develops Home Assistant Cloud and supports open-source projects focused on privacy, choice, sustainability, smart home hardware, standards, and voice technology.

What you will do

• Build and maintain backend services primarily using Elixir.
• Design and implement scalable, high-performance, and reliable cloud applications.
• Develop and maintain authentication, subscription, and payment-related services.
• Improve the performance, quality, security, and data protection of Home Assistant Cloud.
• Operate production systems, troubleshoot live issues, and improve service reliability.
• Collaborate on code reviews and cross-functional feature delivery.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional backend development experience.
• Professional experience developing production applications in Elixir and experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with Git and GitHub, plus basic system administration knowledge.
• Experience with authentication or identity management systems.
• Experience with payment, billing, or subscription platforms.
• Fluent English and availability for regular 2:00 PM–5:00 PM CET overlap.

Nice to have

• Experience with NestJS, Terraform, Grafana, or Python.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and production incident response.
• Personal experience using Home Assistant.
• Knowledge of modern frontend application development.
• Affinity with open-source development and philosophy.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote employment through Remote, with salaried employment in the employee’s country.
• Flexible scheduling with occasional adjustments for cross-time-zone collaboration.
• Twenty-five days of paid time off and up to fourteen days of paid sick leave where required.
• Paid and unpaid parental leave, with supplemental compensation where local law does not provide it.
• Work hardware budget, annual smart home budget, and 50% contribution to the home internet connection.
• One day every two weeks for personal projects, including eligible Home Assistant-related side projects.

Hiring process

• Application review with the hiring manager, followed by screening.
• Technical test and team interview.
• Interview with the CTO and CEO, followed by an offer.