Elixir Backend Engineer: Building a whole new type of credit card (PingLend, YCW21)
Hybrid (Remote (Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Guyana; Paraguay; Peru; Suriname; Uruguay; Venezuela; Mexico; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; El Salvador; Costa Rica; Panama; Belize))$70k - $85kContractPosted 11mo ago
About the role
Elixir Backend Engineer role at PingLend (Pesto) to build a new type of credit card platform (collateral-backed credit) and scale backend systems. Focus on highly efficient, fault-tolerant backend, collaboration with frontend, and extensive testing.
Responsibilities
- Build a highly efficient and fault-tolerant platform
- Work with front-end team to design and implement practical and scalable API's
- Take ownership of the backend as much as possible
- Build tests for everything. We love and are obsessed with tests!
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of building highly complex distributed systems
- Minimum of 3 years + of functional programming experience with a minimum of 1 year of Elixir experience
- Can-do attitude with the ability to roll up your sleeves and get the job done
- A bar raiser with a track record of achieving within a highly collaborative team environment
- Passion for clean easy to debug and highly extendable code
Skills
Required:ElixirFunctional programmingDistributed systems
Last updated Jul 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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