AI Product Engineer, Elixir

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Latin America.

📋 Description

• Convert customer or market requirements and high-level concepts into product decisions, detailed specifications, acceptance criteria, and realistic weekly delivery targets.

• Oversee the architecture and development of Elixir-based applications, encompassing integrations, APIs, data models, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.

• Establish and manage autonomous coding-agent workflows, which include task planning, parallel agents, context and state preservation, recovery from failures or interruptions, and management of execution costs and limits.

• Create a reliable delivery cycle from specification/PRD to tracked issues, agent implementation, automated testing, CI, independent QA/security review, pull requests, controlled merges, and releases.

• Evaluate agent output, troubleshoot complex issues, validate end-to-end behavior, prevent regressions, and write code directly when necessary.

• Engage in daily, proactive communication with clients and the team, highlight risks, suggest trade-offs and solutions, showcase working increments, and ensure visible progress.

• Ongoing enhancement of the agent harness, development standards, observability, and quality gates.

• Provide functioning, verified software at the conclusion of each sprint.

• Ensure agents make consistent progress on prepped work between reviews.

• Deliver rapidly while upholding quality and security.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of professional software development experience in delivering and maintaining production applications.

• Solid debugging, architecture, and software design fundamentals.

• At least 2 years of hands-on Elixir development experience on real-world applications.

• Confidence in reasoning about Elixir code and its runtime.

• Experience with Phoenix, OTP, and Ecto is highly relevant.

• Proven experience in delivering significant development work using AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or similar CLI-based tools.

• Capability to manage multi-step agent workflows with testing, reviews, retries, and human approval gates.

• Accountability for the accuracy and security of delivered results.

• Strong full-stack or backend engineering skills, including APIs, databases, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and cloud-hosted production systems.

• Product-oriented mindset and independent decision-making ability.

• Exceptional written and verbal English skills.

• B2+ or higher English proficiency is required for daily written and verbal communication with clients and team members.

• Proactive communication with clients.

• Ability to work remotely with personal equipment during Eastern Time hours from 9 AM to 5 PM.

• Additional desired: existing autonomous software factory or agent harness.

• Additional desired: experience with AWS, JavaScript/TypeScript or Node.js, as well as modern DevOps and observability practices.

• Additional desired: experience in designing developer-first integrations, SDKs, CLIs, MCP tools, or plugin-based platforms.

• Experience with production mobile applications is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 9 paid holidays.

• 10 days of paid time off (PTO).

• Remote work opportunities.

• Full-time schedule aligned with Eastern or Central Time business hours.

• Monthly payments in US dollars.