Position: Elixir backend engineer
Company: Pesto Mastercard
Experience required: 5y
Category: Other
English level: upper
Published: 2023-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

About the role
We are looking for an experienced Elixir Backend Engineer who is ready to help build a FinTech unicorn and change the lives of underbanked Americans. In this role, you’ll use your advanced engineering skills to build complex and mission-critical systems

Pesto allows almost anyone to get a credit card regardless of their credit score by collateralizing assets such as gold, jewelry, watches, etc. This allows Pesto's users to build their credit and qualify for previously unobtainable financial products. In addition to our asset-secured card, we are building out a cash-secured offering.

You will collaborate with the engineering and broader Pesto team to own, build, iterate, and ship new features for our appraisal and applicant management system. You will get an opportunity to help shape the engineering culture, standards, tooling, and processes.

THE SKILL SET
•	Well-versed in the nuances of the Elixir programming language
•	Strong experience building reliable and scalable APIs from the ground up that serve web/mobile applications, alerting & health systems, or third-party integrations. This includes designing API abstractions and implementing core API concepts such as authentication.
•	Strong experience with relational databases and SQL (we use PostgreSQL).
•	You are a results-driven self-starter with smarts, humility, communication skills, and equal willingness to teach and learn
•	You deliver high-quality and maintainable code with reliable test coverage
•	You can distill fast-moving product requirements into tangible engineering tasks and designs.

BONUS POINTS
•	Experience with Datadog, AWS
•	Experience with GraphQL
•	You have experience working at a top consumer fintech company