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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll help evolve a product where reliability, scalability, and a great user experience matter.\nYou'll join Team Hire, a collaborative group of Backend and Frontend Engineers, working closely with Design, QA, and DevOps to solve complex problems at scale. We're looking for an engineer who combines strong technical skills with a product mindset: someone who asks \"why?\" before building, thinks about the impact on users, and helps the team find pragmatic solutions to technical challenges.\nYour primary focus will be backend development in Elixir, working on both new capabilities and the modernization of our existing codebase. 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