At Youth Inc., we’re on a mission to empower youth athletes and their families with trusted content and a best-in-class e-commerce experience. Our Elixir/Phoenix-powered platform reaches millions of users—coaches, trainers, and parents—while our B2B marketplace supplies premium team gear to hundreds of programs across the U.S.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain core Elixir/Phoenix microservices, APIs, and worker processes
- Lead database schema design, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning
- Define and implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
- Establish best practices: code reviews, automated testing, observability (Datadog/Sentry)
What We’re Looking For:
- 4+ years professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or tech-lead capacity
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, replication)
- Strong Linux system administration and cloud operations (AWS/GCP) skills
- Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes (or ECS), and Git-based workflows
Youth Inc (https://youth.inc) | Front End Engineer, Elixir Engineer | Remote (US) | Full Time
Youth Inc. is a digital media network and commerce marketplace working to help youth athletes and their families thrive. We have an experienced founding team, have closed our seed round and are rapidly growing.
We're looking for:
- a full-stack Elixir Engineer to build and own a greenfield supply chain and fulfillment application. Bonus if you have great ops skills as well.
- a front-end engineer ( Next.js / Node / TypeScript ) to own the front-end web application. Bonus if you have great design skills as well.
These two people will form the core of the engineering team and will drive the systems and the culture.
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At Youth Inc., we’re on a mission to empower youth athletes and their families with trusted content and a best-in-class e-commerce experience. Our Elixir/Phoenix-powered platform reaches millions of users—coaches, trainers, and parents—while our B2B marketplace supplies premium team gear to hundreds of programs across the U.S.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain core Elixir/Phoenix microservices, APIs, and worker processes - Lead database schema design, indexing strategies, and PostgreSQL performance tuning - Define and implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines - Establish best practices: code reviews, automated testing, observability (Datadog/Sentry)
What We’re Looking For:
- 4+ years professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a senior or tech-lead capacity - Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, replication) - Strong Linux system administration and cloud operations (AWS/GCP) skills - Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes (or ECS), and Git-based workflows
If you're interested, please email me - [email protected]