axelson
Web/Elixir Engineer - Felt, Remote (USA)
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Spatial data is everywhere, but the tools to work with it haven’t kept up. At Felt, we’re changing that with a modern mapping platform built on Elixir and React. We’re looking for an engineer to lead our growth systems while contributing to the core platform that powers real-time, collaborative mapmaking.
About us
My name: Jason Axelson
My position: Senior Software Engineer
Company name: Felt
Company website: https://felt.com/
Company headquarters (country): USA
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc):
- We use Elixir to power our backend, including our collaborative soft-realtime features. We’re big fans of Elixir and have written a few blog posts about it and given some ElixirConf talks about how we use Elixir:
- Blog post - Routing patterns for manageable Phoenix Channels
- ElixirConf 2022 talk - Delightful Multiplayer Editing with Phoenix
- ElixirConf 2023 talk - Rebuilding the Plane While It’s Still Flying
About the job
Job title: Web/Elixir Engineer
Job description: Lead the development of Felt’s product-led growth systems and help scale the platform to millions of users.
Salary range: Benchmarked against companies at our stage and valuation
Qualifications or experience required:
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with strong Elixir, React, and database skills
- Comfortable building complex systems integrating product analytics (Amplitude or similar), billing (Stripe or similar), and customer data (HubSpot or similar), and making them fast
- System-level thinker with an eye for detail and feel comfortable collaborating across product, marketing, and sales teams
- Product driven mindset - believe in doing the right thing by the user first
What the successful job applicant will be working on: Building and optimizing growth systems while also improving our Elixir backend that serves maps to our users
More details on benefits is available on our careers page: Felt | Careers
Position on remote work
Remote job: yes (although we do also have an office in Oakland that you’re welcome to work out of, but the majority of employees are fully remote)
Remote restrictions: USA
Remote leeway: USA only right now
Any other notes about your position on remote work: N/A
About the interview process
- Intro call (30 mins)
- Take home assignment
- A paid 2-4 week contract where we can get a feel for what it is like to work with each other
Further info
Please apply by sending an email to hello@felt.com with either your Resume, LinkedIn, or GitHub profile
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krasenyp
I feel like a pretty strong EMEA team can be built just by gathering members of this forum.
hauleth
Ping me if you decide to expand with offices to EMEA.
axelson
If we do I’ll let you know!








