Backend Engineer

Mesh-AI Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A music technology company in Greater London seeks a Backend Engineer to join their Product team. In this role, you will design scalable backend features using Elixir and Phoenix, ensuring high quality and reliability of ticketing systems. Strong experience in web applications and knowledge of PostgreSQL is required. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, contributing to discussions and growing their technical skills while shipping valuable software.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Elixir and Phoenix or another functional language.
• Experience building and maintaining web applications in production environment.
• Solid understanding of database concepts and writing efficient queries.
• Good understanding of OSes and Linux internals.
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and services.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend features using Elixir and Phoenix.
• Contribute to technical discussions with PMs, Engineers, and Designers.
• Collaborate with senior Elixir experts and participate in code reviews.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Troubleshoot production issues and maintain system reliability.

Skills

Elixir

Phoenix

Database concepts (PostgreSQL)

APIs integration

Linux

Job description

Live shows make us feel good. They’re a time to hang with our friends, discover new artists or lose ourselves on a dancefloor. We’re on a mission to bring all of this to more fans, more often – and that’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Product team and help build exceptional products for fans, venues and artists.

At DICE, you’ll be part of the company that’s redefining live entertainment. It’s a place where you can be yourself, influence the culture, and create work that you’re proud of.

About the role

DICE is scaling fast and we’ve got ambitious goals for our platforms. As a Backend Engineer, you will have a direct impact on what we build and how we build it, working alongside a very senior team of experts to deliver high‑quality features.

Our backend apps are written mostly in Elixir. They feed various information to our award‑winning apps with GraphQL and REST API, and handle millions of transactions for our ticket sales. Our code is hosted in GitHub, pipelines are managed by Drone CI, and we deploy to Kubernetes clusters.

We are always open to making changes and improvements to our workflow and code base, and we will look to you to contribute ideas and grow your skills within our engineering culture.

You’ll be

• Designing and developing scalable backend features using Elixir and Phoenix.
• Contributing to technical discussions with Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to understand requirements and provide time estimates.
• Collaborating with and learning from a senior team of Elixir experts, actively participating in code reviews and pair programming.
• Writing clean, maintainable, and well‑documented code with strong test coverage.
• Troubleshooting production issues and helping to maintain the reliability of our ticketing systems.

You are

• A collaborative problem solver who enjoys working in a cross‑functional team.
• A fan of music and culture.
• Someone who cares about the quality of the software you ship, from unit tests to documentation.

Passionate, humble and talented.

Eager to learn and grow your technical skills in a high‑performing environment.

Eager to build apps that make a positive impact on the world.

You’ll need

Proven experience with Elixir and Phoenix (or experience with another functional language like Ruby/Erlang/Haskell and a genuine desire to master Elixir).

Experience building and maintaining web applications in a production environment.

A solid understanding of database concepts (PostgreSQL) and how to write efficient queries.

Good understanding of how OSes and Linux work internally.

Experience integrating third‑party APIs and services.

A mindset for shipping business value through iterative development.

About DICE

DICE is based throughout Europe, North America, Australia and India, and is rapidly growing worldwide. We’re constantly innovating to bring amazing products to fans, artists, venues and promoters.

We know that having a variety of perspectives makes us a better company – it's why we strongly encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply. Find out how we’re creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive DICE.

Application process

Our process usually involves a quick chat on the phone, a portfolio review or task and a couple of interviews where you’ll meet the people you’ll work with. We’ll keep you fully informed along the way.