Senior Backend Product Engineer (Elixir)

Job description

Note: The listed salary range is based on the salary range for the Netherlands. Salary ranges may vary by location. About the Role Our Intelligence team builds the AI capabilities that run across the whole Tellent suite. We're looking for a backend-heavy product engineer who can take a fuzzy "AI should help here" idea and turn it into an interface people actually trust and use. You'll own problems end to end: shaping, building, shipping, and checking whether it moved anything. Your 12-Month Journey First 3 months: You'll get to know the team, our product, and our architecture while contributing to your first meaningful improvements. You'll become familiar with our engineering practices and ways of working, supported by experienced teammates as you get up to speed with our Elixir and AI stack. Within 6 months: You'll take ownership of features and contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and improvements to the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of the platform. You'll work closely with your teammates to solve customer problems and deliver valuable product improvements. After 1 year: You'll be a trusted technical partner within the team, taking ownership of significant parts of the product and contributing to technical decisions and architectural discussions. You'll also help share knowledge across the team through collaboration, pair programming, and mentoring. What You'll Be Doing Building AI-powered features into mature products with real users, not a greenfield demo. Working across the stack when the problem demands it (80/20 rule: mostly backend, comfortable following a problem into the frontend). Take ownership of the features you deliver, ensuring they are well-tested, maintainable, and meet our quality standards. Collaborate closely with Backend and Frontend Engineers, Design, QA, and DevOps to solve complex problems and deliver valuable product improvements. What You Bring Commercial experience with Elixir , or strong backend development experience in technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, or PHP combined with a strong motivation to learn Elixir Experience with Typescript and Mastra (AI TypeScript framework) or strong willingness to learn it Senior-level judgment: you have shipped enough to know when good enough is good enough Product thinking: you push back on specs, evaluate trade-offs, prototype cheaply, kill your…