What are the responsibilities and job description for the Elixir Engineering Manager position at Vic.ai?
Elixir Engineering Manager
Location: Remote
This is a fully remote position, full-time, with flexible working hours and work arrangements.
About Vic.ai
Vic.ai is creating the “Intelligent Accounting” era, using artificial intelligence to automate accounting and provide advisory, business insight, and eventually business foresight.
We’re a Series A stage start-up, founded by three Norwegian entrepreneurs and backed by renowned Silicon Valley investors (including Costanoa Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, and GGV Capital). We’re US-based, but our team is global, from New Zealand to California. We’re bringing AI to Finance and Accounting because the industry is ripe for automation and big-data insight and the market is huge: $200B just in the US.
Our main office locations is in New York. We have a well established remote-work culture, and over 50% of our team are working fully remote.
We have a solid team of very experienced, yet humble, Elixir engineers, will you be our next team member?
About you
You’ve been a software engineer for 5 years and now have management experience, but you’ve been a tinkerer and a builder your whole life. We’re a team of builders—when we aren’t building Vic.ai, we’re tinkering with a personal project, contributing to open source, modding a drone, building a computer from components, etc.
We’re looking for an experienced team leader who enjoys working with server-side technologies. You possess a good mixture of DevOps and application development skills and would like to build innovative solutions with experienced teammates in a flexible environment.
You should have plenty of experience in building performant, easy to use, well-monitored, and well tested APIs, designing efficient data flows, communicating clearly, sharing knowledge, and questioning existing solutions.
You’re ready for the next step in your career, ready to take on fast-moving challenges. You’re enthusiastic about AI and the possibilities it opens for software development and transforming traditional work. You aim at reaching greatness and delivering exceptional outcomes in your work.
As a team player, you are not afraid of reaching out to your colleagues to discuss development challenges, especially when you are stuck trying to solve a specific issue.
You are fluent in English.
Who we're looking for:
BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
10 years of relevant work experience including leadership roles
Professional experience with Elixir programming language
Track record of shipping high-quality products and features
Ability to turn business needs into engineering solutions
As an early employee, you'll be working with a small team of committed and talented engineers and having a large, long-term impact on technical design and engineering culture.
We Offer
- An exciting work environment operating at the forefront of AI technology development
- Competitive salary
- 401K, health/vision/wellness perks (including health insurance coverage option 100% free for the employee AND family and perks like ClassPass and CitiBike!)
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Virtual team building events & awesome swag
- People-focused culture, adding-value and fun to our meetings
- Generous vacation time, family and travel-friendly environment
- Work alongside an enthusiastic, collegial, and driven team in a highly meritocratic environment
- The opportunity to work remotely, including workstation setup
- A team-focused culture. The team builds the product, the business builds the team.
Above all, you should enjoy the journey. Our engineers are creative, technical, smart, and genuinely like each other. They enjoy the work they do, and so should you!
