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DockYard is a leading digital product development consultancy that specializes in strategy, design, software R&D, and full-stack engineering. With expertise in using cutting-edge technologies such as Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView, they have gained the trust of renowned companies such as Nasdaq, Apple, Netflix, and Harvard. As a digital product consultancy, DockYard partners with innovative teams to build scalable products that can adapt to growing user bases, features, and complexities. With more than a decade of experience, they have been trusted by Fortune 500 companies and industry disruptors to overcome complex product challenges and turn ideas into impactful products. DockYard offers a range of services, including product strategy and discovery, product design and delivery, and engineering consulting and staffing. They utilize design thinking and modern technologies to turn user insights into production-ready apps while providing mentorship to client teams. Their goal is to create reliable, scalable, and sustainable custom software that users will love. With a focus on collaboration and constant communication, DockYard becomes an extension of your team, sharing knowledge and ensuring a seamless development process. They have been featured in numerous publications and media outlets and continue to deliver exceptional digital products. If you're looking to accelerate your time to product delivery success and create products that perform well and scale effectively, DockYard is your go-to partner. Contact them today to start building for the future.

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DockYard is a remote-first, digital product consultancy specializing in production-ready apps. Forward-thinking teams come to us to build digital products that scale with their users, features, and complexity. Using a candid approach to partnerships, we help to upskill teams along the way. The result? More flexibility in how our clients take products from idea to impact.

DockYard offers a range of consulting services, including product planning, design, user experience (UX), full-stack engineering, and QA. Over the last decade, the company has solved complex product challenges for visionary brands like Netflix, Apple, Nasdaq, and Harvard.

We’re honored to have been included in guides such as The Startup Weekly’s Exceptional Workplace Award (2021), The BBJ’s Fast 50 (2021, 2020), Inc 5000 (2020, 2019), and Fast Company’s Best Places to Work for Innovators (2020).

DockYard is seeking **Senior Elixir Engineers** to help a growing SaaS platform deliver multiple near-term initiatives across an established Elixir/Phoenix + React codebase.

In this role, you will be called upon to augment and accelerate client teams by partnering with them across several efforts: building enterprise-grade REST APIs, developing agentic workflows and agent-based product features, and providing backfill/capacity coverage to keep other parallel initiatives moving forward.

The ideal candidate can become productive quickly in an established codebase, take ownership from definition through delivery, flag risks early, and ship with a strong bias toward maintainable, secure-by-default solutions.

# **Responsibilities**

- Ship features across an established Elixir/Phoenix + React codebase, partnering with in-house engineers and following existing patterns and architecture.
- Help extend core device-management workflows (agent install, device inventory, device inspection, software inventory/updates, remote script execution).
- Build out and iterate on agentic workflows / agent-based features using the existing approach/patterns already in place.
- Expand a customer-facing enterprise REST API, including consistent data shapes across resources, endpoint conventions, and “enterprise-ready” concerns like OAuth, scoping, and versioning.
- Deliver scoped work as a “capacity play” (turning through well-defined tickets) while reducing integration risk and keeping quality high.
- Deliver clean, testable, and maintainable code using modern best practices and technologies.
- Assist in project scoping, estimation, and planning activities.
- Participate actively in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing practices.

## Must Haves

- Significant, hands-on experience shipping production systems with **Elixir + Phoenix** (ability to ramp into an established codebase and execute quickly).
- Full-stack comfort working in a **Phoenix backend + React frontend** environment (you don’t need to be a UI specialist, but you can contribute across the stack).
- Strong REST API fundamentals for enterprise use cases: **OAuth**, token/scopes/permissions modeling, **versioning** strategies, and consistent resource/data conventions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

## Nice to Haves

- Experience building **agentic / LLM-adjacent** features in Elixir (or adjacent ecosystems), and comfort working within an established agent pattern/library.
- Familiarity with standards-driven API design (e.g., **JSON-API** or similar conventions) to reduce bikeshedding and improve consistency.
- Exposure to integration-enabling APIs (developer platforms, partner integrations), and awareness of emerging interface patterns (e.g., MCP-style integration surfaces).
- Experience in device-management / IT admin domains (inventory, remote actions, software/package management), or similar operational tooling.
- Experience working in a remote environment
- Prior client services, consulting, or freelancing experience
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Cursor, etc)

# **Employment Type**

- Contract (40 hours/week)

# **Pay Range**

- USD $90 - $100/hr based on experience.

## Location

**US Remote** ( _must be able to work Eastern Business Hours_)

DockYard is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, political affiliation, personal appearance, pregnancy, family responsibilities, matriculation, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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