Backend Engineer II @ Blitz App

Blitz is a quickly growing and self-sustaining start-up that provides gamers with personalized stats and insights powered by billions of matches. High performance is at the core of our values. We are a team of gamers and entrepreneurial technologists with big ambitions. At Blitz, you will find co-workers who are friendly, eager to collaborate, and work creatively to ship market-defining software. If you thrive in an environment optimized for autonomy, innovation, teamwork, and embody our principles, Blitz is the place for you to make an outsized impact.

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 requires all hires to be onsite Monday through Thursday out of our Los Angeles (Playa Vista) office, with the option to WFH on Friday.

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
Option for employer paid coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) plan
Stock options program
401(k) 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.

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