Senior Back End Software Engineer (Elixir) Full Time

Product Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Elixir services that are core to Papa’s operations and member experiences.
• Own large-scale system components from architecture to deployment, driving clean, well-tested, and well-documented code.
• Work across the stack to improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our applications.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define technical solutions that align with business goals and deliver measurable impact.
• Contribute to our GraphQL API design and implementation, enabling seamless integration with mobile, web applications, and vendor services.
• Proactively identify areas for improvement in our systems and processes, and lead initiatives to address them.
• Participate in technical planning, estimations, and decision-making to help guide the direction of our platform.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability
• Experience improving quality through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, etc.
• Experience leveraging coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, etc)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing and maintaining GraphQL API’s
• Experience with Phoenix LiveView
• Experience with React front-end maintenance
• Experience with connecting to vendor APIs, secure use of SMS, IVR, and voice APIs, HIPAA compliance, and AWS services
• AI experience beyond coding agents such as integrations with AI vendors, addition of agentic AI to existing systems, replacing manual processes with AI, etc.
• A strong communicator and collaborator
• Passionate about improving healthcare access and outcomes

Papa Culture

Papa’s culture is people first. While we have an incredible team of hard-working Papa people, at the end of the day, our company is really about family and community – and we celebrate that among our employees. We encourage everyone to bring their whole authentic selves to work. To be transparent. To be non-hierarchical. And, above all, to be a really good person.

We see ourselves as a place where every Papa employee feels they belong, a place where careers flourish, a place that brings back purpose and joy to work, a culture where visionaries/entrepreneurs are developed.