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.
Interested? Send your resume (emails with no resumes will not be read) and a link to your GitHub or a project you're proud of to [email protected] with "Senior Software Engineer — [Your Name]" in the subject line.