Senior Elixir Engineer

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?

What’s the position?

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Elixir Engineer to maintain and assist in refactoring our codebase. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on improving existing systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring maintainability while working in a production-critical environment. You will work closely with a small, focused team to modernize our architecture and enhance the scalability of our Elixir services.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and refactor a large existing Elixir codebase, improving maintainability and performance.
• Assist in the migration of a monolithic Elixir system to isolated systems distributed in a cluster.
• Assist and execute a strategic refactoring initiative for our Elixir-based codebase.
• Analyze and restructure legacy components to align with best practices in functional programming and scalable system design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including backend, DevOps, and product stakeholders, to ensure seamless integration of improvements.
• Identify and mitigate technical debt, enforcing clean architecture principles.
• Develop robust testing strategies to validate refactored components and ensure system stability.
• Participate in code reviews and mentoring sessions to uphold high engineering standards.

What are we looking for?

• Strong proficiency in Elixir, with experience in refactoring large-scale applications.
• Deep understanding of OTP, GenServers, Supervisors, and BEAM concurrency model.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Mnesia, and Redis, including query optimization.
• Experience with distributed systems, message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience in hot code reloading and zero-downtime deployments.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment automation.
• Experience in performance profiling, benchmarking, and debugging Elixir applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a keen eye for identifying and addressing inefficiencies.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience working in a microservices or event-driven architecture.
• Contributions to the open-source Elixir community.

What’s in it for you?

We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include:

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Flexible vacation allowance
• Remote working
• Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand

Roster of uniques

We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us, and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunity employer).