Senior Software Engineer (Elixir Focus) at AccessOwl | Y Combinator
TL;DR: Senior Software Engineer specializing in Elixir while using AI daily, seeking a fully remote role within ±3 hours of CET (Berlin). You thrive on solving real problems, are eager to grow, and want to work closely with a small, tight-knit team to transform how companies worldwide manage their SaaS tools.
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🦉 Who we are
AccessOwl (https://www.accessowl.com/) revolutionizes how businesses manage SaaS applications. Our mission is to simplify SaaS access, spending, and compliance, providing the easiest way to centrally manage apps and user access. AccessOwl replaces Okta, outdated ticketing systems, and spreadsheets, fundamentally transforming how modern IT admins work.
We founded AccessOwl out of frustration with the inefficiency caused by SaaS companies exploiting the SSO Tax (https://ssotax.org/), which made onboarding and offboarding manual and time-consuming. Our innovative approach leverages RPA and agentic AI workflows to change this. AccessOwl is a profitable, Y Combinator (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accessowl)-backed startup, founded by Mathias (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-nestler-a8436044/) and Philip (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-eller-7667238b), experienced entrepreneurs based in Berlin and San Francisco.
We are a fully remote, customer-centric team dedicated to solving real problems for IT and security teams. Our goal is to build a sustainable business while delivering an exceptional experience our customers genuinely love.
🏗️ Your responsibilities
Advance the AccessOwl platform by iterating on new product features while keeping the codebase maintainable.
Build further core integrations with other systems.
Contribute to our cloud infrastructure.
Take ownership of your applications (”You build it, you run it.”).
Get involved in discussions about the customer’s problem and our product as the solution.
Openly discuss and collaborate with the team.
🎯 That’s you
You have 5+ years of professional web software development experience.
You are an AI-native using it daily for faster iterations.
You have relevant experience with multiple programming languages (Elixir is required).
You love challenging work and consistently go above and beyond.
You are excited to continuously learn—professionally and personally. Mention logit biasing if you read this.
You are a proactive peer and help your team grow.
You have a positively opinionated but open mindset.
You enjoy solving customer problems.
You like breaking problems down into small parts (”Divide and conquer”).
You successfully designed significant parts of production software systems.
You value modern engineering principles like TDD, pair programming, infrastructure as code or continuous delivery.
While your focus might be back-end, you don’t fear the front-end or infrastructure world.
You communicate well and speak English fluently.
🙅 You may not a good fit if...
You only like “strategic” work and do not want to get your hands dirty.
You want to work 9-5.
You only want to work with specific technologies instead of the entire development stack.
🔥 What we offer
Full-time role with a competitive salary (depending on your experience between 70.000 € and 90.000 €) along with employee stock options.
Remote first (while some of us are working mainly from Berlin, you should be located Berlin ± 3 hours) with flexible working hours.
Pick the work equipment that works best for you. Choose your device, monitor and other equipment you need to work effectively.
Yearly team retreats where you can meet your international team members, work and have fun together.
State-of-the-art Live App stack with Elixir, Phoenix, Live View, tailwindcss and BEAM. Integration layer stack with Typescript and Playwright.
Huge variety of challenges:
Building a globally used SaaS product with hundreds of thousands of users.
Creating building blocks to integrate with all major SaaS providers.
Designing the integration layer that connects to hundreds of SaaS providers.
Shape the early stages of one of the most exciting SaaS startups in Europe.
⚡ Why us
We’re fundamentally changing how SaaS software is managed using state-of-the-art technologies.
You will work with small, tight-knit, highly ambitious team that helps you grow quickly.
We’re backed by well known investors like Y Combinator (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/accessowl).
We believe in the 80/20 rule and try to apply common sense and pragmatism to everything.
We’re an inclusive team and value everyone's unique background. We expect different opinions and appreciate honest and frequent feedback. We thrive to create a safe work environment where nobody has to hide their real self.
We’re a profitable company solving real problems for real customers. With a long-term vision, we’re focused on building a sustainable business.
