True Anomaly
Senior Software Engineer, Elixir
$180K–$265K
Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Mar 26, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA
Denver, CO
Long Beach, CA - Experience
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline (preferred).
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Also requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
About the job
Develop and evolve distributed software systems for spacecraft ground control, owning service features from design through production while guiding architecture and engineering quality.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, and iterate on distributed-system features for satellite command and control, mission planning, and mission data systems.
- Set architectural patterns for Elixir/OTP systems, addressing fault tolerance, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Review code, mentor engineers, collaborate across technical teams, and document decisions and patterns.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Expert-level Elixir and OTP knowledge, including BEAM internals, scheduling, process architecture, and supervision strategies.
- Deep expertise designing resilient, fault-tolerant distributed systems and experience evolving service architectures and API boundaries at scale.
- U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline.
- Experience as a technical lead or primary backend engineer on a product with real users and production constraints.
Pay
$180,000 - $265,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Elixir, OTP, BEAM, ExUnit, gRPC, RESTful, WebSocket, PostgreSQL
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