Blitz is a quickly growing and self-sustaining start-up that provides gamers with personalized stats and insights powered by billions of matches. High performance is at the core of our values. We are a team of gamers and entrepreneurial technologists with big ambitions. At Blitz, you will find co-workers who are friendly, eager to collaborate, and work creatively to ship market-defining software. If you thrive in an environment optimized for autonomy, innovation, teamwork, and embody our principles, Blitz is the place for you to make an outsized impact.
Overview
Blitz.gg is a rapidly growing gaming startup that focuses on delivering the best gaming experience for our users. Blitz is horizontally scaling our Elixir backend team to empower more gamers across more games! Join a small, self-motivated, autonomous team that continuously deploys code to millions of active users daily, optimizes the organization's global goals and the daily software delivery process. Help extend a modular, well-encapsulated backend architecture to several new games while ensuring availability and scalability. Operate independently with Elixir and Postgres on production at scale and collaborate on interesting challenges. Our backend system digests and serves 10s of TB of data daily with over 500k database operations per second.
This position requires all hires to be onsite Monday through Thursday out of our Los Angeles (Playa Vista) office, with the option to WFH on Friday.
What You’ll Do
- Deliver complex products that are well-thought out and bug-free
- Understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in their area
- Have end-to-end responsibility on projects of increasing complexity; contribute to common code
- Communicates technical decisions through design docs, tech talks, and internal documentation
- Provides technical advice and weighs in on technical decisions that impact other teams or the company at large. Researches and proposes new technologies.
- Regularly delivers software on time and is constantly working to make accurate estimates and deliver on those estimates
- Sets direction at the service level and consistently influences decision-making at the project level
- Understands the tradeoffs between technical and product needs and leads to solutions that take all of these needs into account
What It Takes To Be Successful
- 3 - 5 years experience with Elixir
- With 2 - 4 years experience with Phoenix, LiveView, Oban, GenStage, and more
- 2 - 4 years experience with Postgres, Riak, and Redis
- 1+ year of experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry
- Full understanding of Git, GitHub and CircleCI
What We Offer/Why Join
- A performance-driven, fast-paced company focused on growth and shared success
- A team of passionate, dedicated and committed professionals
- Opportunities for professional growth and increased responsibilities
- Excellent reputation with customers and within the industry
- Annual salary range: $140-170k USD + bonus
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Option for employer paid coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision) plan
- Stock options program
- 401(k) matching
- Company-wide team building events
Salary for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
Blitz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.
