Introduction

PDQ is seeking an experienced Elixir Software Engineer to help us scale and develop new functionality around our cloud-based SaaS product, Connect. In this role, you’ll be working with talented Elixir engineers across the United States and Romania, as our Bucharest team continues to expand this year.

About us

My name: Jenna Foote
My position: Senior Recruiter
Company name: PDQ.com Corporation
Company website: pdq.com
Company headquarters (country): USA, Utah
Company info and history:

PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick through our products Deploy, Inventory, Connect, Detect, SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms. Elixir was introduced into our technical stack in 2022 as we began to develop our cloud-based SaaS product, Connect, as well as a payment platform for our customers.

Job title: Software Engineer - Elixir
Job description: As a Software Engineer at PDQ, you’ll play a key role in developing and maintaining our Connect product. In this role, you’ll contribute across the entire product lifecycle—from ideation and implementation to testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. Your responsibilities will include building new features, resolving bugs, improving existing code, and continuously growing your technical skills as part of a collaborative engineering team working with Elixir across the United States and Romania.

What you’ll be working on:

• Build new features and enhancements in Elixir and React with TypeScript for our cloud-native, agent-based SaaS product.
• Work in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles.
• Collaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases.
• Research, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions.
• Participate in constructive code reviews and continuous learning.

We’re looking for people who have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience
• Strong experience with functional programming languages (especially Elixir)
• Proven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products
• Experience with agent-based or end-point management SaaS products is a plus
• 4+ years of experience working on a variety of professional software development projects
• Familiarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Exposure to open-source development is a plus.

Who you are:

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development
• Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills
• Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale
• Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium
• Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies
• Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems
• Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements
• Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely

Position on remote work

Remote job: Partially - ideal candidates live close to our hub in Bucharest but we may be open to fully remote Romanian candidates based on experience.
Remote restrictions: Restricted to candidates residing in Romania only.

About the interview process

1. Phone screen with Recruiter
2. Live Technical Assessment (Elixir based) and meet the team
3. Core Value Interview (PDQ values: honesty, ownership, collaboration & improvement)
4. Executive Interview with our CTO

Further info

Check out the job description here: PDQ Careers
Feel free to send your CV to jenna.foote@pdq.com or apply via the application.