Senior Software Engineer at Youth Inc.

Company: Youth Inc.
Location: Hybrid (Boston/Chicago)
Source: Hacker News

Youth Inc. is 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

Languages/Frameworks: Elixir/Phoenix (LiveView), Next.js
Data/Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Oban, Meilisearch, Vercel, AWS
Tools: 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

Base Salary: $120k–$190k
Equity: Meaningful equity package

How to Apply

Interested? Send your resume and a link to your GitHub or a project you're proud of to kfaham@youth.inc with the subject line: "Senior Software Engineer — [Your Name]"