Youth Inc. (https://youth.inc) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid: Boston/Chicago).
We’re a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace and media network for youth and high school sports. We’ve moved from zero to one with real revenue and are now looking for a Senior Engineer to help us scale to serve the 65M American families in this space.
Our Stack: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), PostgreSQL, Oban, Next.js, Meilisearch, Vercel and Claude Code.
What you’ll do:
Lead product/engineering initiatives and own outcomes end-to-end.
Design for scale: We handle high transaction volumes and need someone who can tune relational databases for millions of rows.
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping speed and long-term system health.
Work in a high-trust, AI-assisted environment where you drive the vision.
What we’re looking for:
7+ years of experience building/maintaining high-traffic, full-stack systems.
Expertise in Elixir or an equivalent functional/concurrent stack.
Strong foundation in observability, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident response.
Clear communication—you can turn complex technical ideas into diagrams and strategy.
Compensation: $120k–$190k base + meaningful equity.
Note: You must be located in the US and you must be authorized to work permanently in the US to be considered for this role.
Youth Inc. (https://youth.inc) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Hybrid: Boston/Chicago).
We’re a venture-backed e-commerce marketplace and media network for youth and high school sports. We’ve moved from zero to one with real revenue and are now looking for a Senior Engineer to help us scale to serve the 65M American families in this space.
Our Stack: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), PostgreSQL, Oban, Next.js, Meilisearch, Vercel and Claude Code.
What you’ll do:
Lead product/engineering initiatives and own outcomes end-to-end.
Design for scale: We handle high transaction volumes and need someone who can tune relational databases for millions of rows.
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between shipping speed and long-term system health.
Work in a high-trust, AI-assisted environment where you drive the vision.
What we’re looking for:
7+ years of experience building/maintaining high-traffic, full-stack systems.
Expertise in Elixir or an equivalent functional/concurrent stack.
Strong foundation in observability, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and incident response.
Clear communication—you can turn complex technical ideas into diagrams and strategy.
Compensation: $120k–$190k base + meaningful equity.
Note: You must be located in the US and you must be authorized to work permanently in the US to be considered for this role.