Introductory paragraph

We are looking to add a fullstack developer with a strong interest in payments and billing systems. This role is ideal for a junior to mid level engineer who wants ownership over real world financial workflows including subscriptions, invoices, user entitlements, and internal payment tooling.

You will work primarily on our Elixir backend and React frontend, with a heavy emphasis on Stripe integrations and internal dashboards used by operations and finance.

About us

My name: Dario Heinisch
My position: CTO
Company name: unusualwhales
Company website: unusualwhales.com
Company headquarters (country): USA
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc): We use elixir for our api and our cron jobs (oban)

About the job

Job title: Backend Engineer (focus payments and user metrics)
Job description: See Introductory paragraph
Salary range: 90,000 - 120,000 USD
Qualifications or experience required: Previous experience with Stripe, Elixir and React
What the successful job applicant will be working on: You will be responsible for ensuring that our payments and subscriptions work flawless (upgrades, downgrades, signups). Work on dashboards and visuals for tracking the use of users of our api. You would work with elixir (phoenix), postgresql and clickhouse.

Position on remote work

Remote job: Yes
Remote restrictions:
Remote leeway:
Any other notes about your position on remote work:

About the interview process

The coding task would depending on whether you use AI tools for your coding or not:

1. If you use AI tools you would get a live coding task where you can use all your tools and we would want to see how you use them, how you review the generated code, what you consider is good vs bad code.

2. None AI use: Take home task (roughly 1h) and then walk through code and do some smaller tweaks while we review the code together

Further info

If you are interested or have questions send an email to jobs@unusualwhales.com