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IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms.\nOur Core Values:\nHonesty: You communicate transparently and build trust through your actions.\nOwnership: You take responsibility for outcomes and follow through on commitments.\nCollaboration: You value diverse perspectives and work effectively across teams.\nImprovement: You actively seek opportunities to learn, grow, and innovate.\n Location\nRemote, US - This position is open to candidates residing in any of PDQ’s open states: AR, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, OK, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.\nPDQ is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale intelligent, autonomous systems that transform how users interact with our products. 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You will work across the full software development lifecycle, combining strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience in LLMs, agentic architectures, and AI-driven application development to bring practical, production-ready AI capabilities to life.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nBuild new features in Elixir and React with TypeScript while designing and operating agentic AI systems that perform multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool execution for our cloud-native SaaS product.\nWork in a CI/CD environment, shipping code to production frequently following agile principles. \nCollaborate with engineering teammates in the US and Romania on shared priorities. \nTroubleshoot technical issues, from bugs to outages and customer support cases. \nResearch, prototype, and contribute to technical decisions. \nParticipate in constructive code reviews and continuous learning. \nWe're looking for people who have:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience \n5+ years experience developing Elixir or Erlang based applications, with much of this experience in a professional setting\nExperience with AI fundamentals and agentic workflows, including:\nAutonomous or semi-autonomous agents\nMulti-step reasoning, planning, and tool use\nFeedback loops, memory, and stateful agents\nLLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, semantic kernels, custom agent frameworks)\nExperience integrating LLMs via APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)\nUnderstanding of prompt engineering vs. system design tradeoffs\nExperience handling hallucinations, guardrails, evaluation, and observability\n\nProven experience building intuitive, scalable UI/UX for SaaS products \nExperience with agent-based or end-point management SaaS products is a plus\nFamiliarity with agile development and CI/CD workflows. \nExperience with GraphQL for building and consuming APIs \nFamiliarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and PostgreSQL \nExposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana \nExposure to open-source development is a plus. \nWho you are:\nOwnership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments\nHonesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions\nCollaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork\nImprovement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development \nPassionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills \nExperience building clean and simple solutions at scale \nPossess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills \nAbility to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium \nKnowledge of Git version control and branching strategies \nDefensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems \nStrong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements \nExcellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience \nExperience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks \nAbility to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase \nAbility to understand a problem space and make code changes safely \nExperience with internal quality validation marker PDQ-Elixir-SIGNAL-\nPDQ Perks & Benefits:\nPDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you'd expect from working at a very cool tech company, and even some you might not expect, including:\n4-Day Work Week\nEquity\nManagers who champion professional development \n100% Premium Coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents\n100% Premium Coverage for Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance\nCompany Match of the first 6% of your employee deferrals \nFlexible Paid Time Off Policy that treats you like the adult that you are\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) and wellness incentives\nQuarterly Company Values Award (team member nominated)\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nPDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. 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