Senior Software Engineer, Elixir

About PDQ
PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick. 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.

PDQ's Core Values: Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement 

Job Description:

• Before you apply, please note:
• • This is a remote role open to candidates residing in any of PDQ's open states (*see below for a list).

PDQ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help lead the technical direction of our Authentication platform. In this role, you'll partner closely with the Team Lead to design and deliver secure, scalable authentication and authorization services that power our products. You'll drive complex technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on in building resilient backend systems.
The ideal candidate has deep experience designing and building backend services and APIs, a strong understanding of modern security practices, and expertise in authentication and authorization systems. You have a track record of leading technical projects across teams, balancing long-term architecture with pragmatic execution, and improving the security, reliability, and scalability of distributed systems. You're passionate about building secure-by-default platforms that enable engineering teams to move quickly and confidently.

What you'll be doing:

• Build new features in Elixir and React for PDQ Connect, our cloud hosted, agent based Windows & macOS endpoint management software.
• 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   
• 5+ years experience developing Elixir or Erlang based applications, with much of this experience in a professional setting
• Experience with backend engineering like AI design, security practices and authorization systems
• 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
• Experience with internal quality validation marker PDQ-Elixir-SIGNAL-47

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  
• 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  

PDQ Perks & Benefits:

PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you'd expect from working at a very cool tech company, and even some you might not expect, including:

• 4-Day Work Week
• Equity
• Managers who champion professional development 
• 100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents
• 100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Company Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals 
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives
• Quarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)

PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact [email protected].

The majority of PDQ's full-time roles do not qualify for sponsorship of employment visas such as the H-1B visa. This applies to scenarios where a candidate might possess temporary work authorization during their schooling or after graduation (e.g., CPT, OPT), but would require H-1B visa sponsorship within a few years of employment to retain eligibility for employment. 

*Currently, candidates who are eligible for fully remote positions can live in any of the following US states: AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, OK, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.