Elixir Developer

NationsBenefits is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America and a Healthcare Fintech provider of supplemental benefits, flex cards, and member engagement solutions. We partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions that drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and bring value to their members.

Through our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, fintech payment platforms, and member engagement solutions, we help health plans deliver high-quality benefits to their members that address the social determinants of health and improve member health outcomes and satisfaction.

Our compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary technology systems, and premier service delivery model allow our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.

We offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associates to contribute to delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. Our goal is to transform the healthcare industry for the better! We provide career advancement opportunities from within the organization across multiple locations in the US, South America, and India.

About the Role :

This role requires a proactive, results-oriented engineer who can take charge and deliver in a fast-paced environment, who has excellent verbal and written communication skills. Additionally, you should be comfortable being a key player in a small team where we often wear multiple hats.

The software you design, and build will be used to address a large variety of use cases, such as :

Empowering patients with varied skills and disabilities to manage their care services schedules

Providing real-time updates to our call center staff so that they can better serve our patient population

Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of our team of care providers through the use of automation, algorithms, statistical models, and machine learning

Integrating external data systems to facilitate data-driven decision-making for our team and our customers

Improve the quality of the services we provide to patients by creating voice and text communications systems to connect patients with caregivers

What You’ll Do :

Build and maintain Elixir services using Phoenix and Absinthe (GraphQL)

Design clean, scalable APIs that power our web and mobile applications

Collaborate with cross-functional partners to design, scope, and deliver features

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers

Improve system performance, reliability, and developer experience

Contribute to CI / CD automation and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS, GitHub Actions)

Participate in architectural discussion and technical strategy

About You :

You’ve shipped and supported production software at scale, ideally in a SaaS environment

You have significant experience (5+ years) writing backend code, with at least 2+ years in Elixir

You’re comfortable designing relational database schemas, writing SQL, and optimizing database performance

You lead by example : clean code, thoughtful abstractions, and strong testing practices

You’re a strong communicator who values collaboration and feedback You enjoy working in small teams, wearing many hats, and making fast progress

Desired Skills :

Deep Elixir + Phoenix experience in production

Experience with GraphQL (Absinthe preferred)

Proficient in PostgreSQL and SQL performance tuning

Familiar with CI / CD tooling (GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Experience building secure systems that handle sensitive data