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DockYard, Inc. is a company that collaborates with innovative teams to create scalable products that accommodate growing user bases, features, and complexity. 

Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and industry disruptors for over a decade, DockYard specializes in turning ideas into impactful products using modern technologies and design thinking. They offer services in product strategy, design and delivery, engineering consulting and staffing, and native mobile app development. 

DockYard emphasizes collaboration and seamless integration with client teams to ensure successful project deliveries, specializing in areas such as user insight translation, digital product crafting, and engineering guidance. 

Web Development • Software Engineering • UI / UX Design • Design Strategy • Ember.js


51 - 200 employees


Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

⚡ Productivity

Senior Elixir Engineer
15 hours ago

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote


⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

Distributed Systems

Elixir

Erlang

GraphQL

JavaScript

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📋 Description
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in Elixir/Phoenix applications, including network-level and application-level optimizations.
• Analyze and improve system communication patterns (GraphQL, REST, distributed Elixir/Erlang) with a focus on async design and minimizing blocking operations.
• Work independently and alongside client engineers and stakeholders to prioritize performance improvements.
• Instrument applications with Telemetry, tracing, and observability tools to enable data-driven decision-making.
• Contribute to project scoping, estimation, and planning, especially around refactoring and system-level improvements.
• Participate actively in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.

🎯 Requirements
• Proven experience shipping Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView applications to production.
• Strong understanding of application performance optimization, including async design, process architecture, and observability.
• Experience using Telemetry, OpenTelemetry, or other tracing/monitoring tools.
• Experience working with GraphQL or similar API technologies, and understanding their performance characteristics.
• Comfort with distributed systems concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.