--- title: 'Senior Software Developer - Elixir at AHEAD' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-developer-elixir-ahead-india-8kyqfvv3vayn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Senior Software Developer - Elixir at AHEAD - **Company:** AHEAD - **Location:** India - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/ff42823c-3691-4ba4-89fc-24b252fb75b2 ## Job description AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. What Will You Be Doing? - Design, build, and maintain features in Signal, Foundry’s in-house ERP, primarily in Elixir, Phoenix, and Phoenix LiveView. - Lead and own product features end to end, from requirements and design through delivery, production support, and iteration. - Work across Signal’s core workflows, including production and work order management, inventory and materials tracking, procurement, and integration scheduling. - Collaborate closely with developers, product, and operations stakeholders across the US and India, including regular overlap with US working hours. - Participate in the design of large, complex solutions and help the team make sound architectural decisions. - Write well-tested, maintainable code, and keep quality high through thorough, constructive code reviews. - Mentor and support other engineers, and help build a strong engineering culture within the India team. - Build and maintain integrations between Signal and other AHEAD platforms and third-party systems. - Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, and leave the system better than you found it. - Contribute to the team’s roadmap, development processes, and engineering standards. What Does the Ideal Candidate Look Like? - 6+ years of professional software development experience. - Strong proficiency in Elixir and Phoenix, with hands-on experience building applications in Phoenix LiveView. - Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), data modeling, and Ecto. - Good testing practices and experience with CI/CD, build tooling, and containerization. - Fluency with modern AI development tools and coding agents, and the judgment to verify what they produce. - A strong understanding of and passion for software design, architecture, and usability. - Experience with other backend languages, and some experience with JavaScript and front-end frameworks. - Experience working on a distributed team across time zones, with clear, direct written and verbal communication in English. - Comfortable working closely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to turn business problems into working software. - Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make sound decisions with incomplete information. - Driven to keep learning and stay current with the latest in development practices and tooling. - Familiarity with REST and GraphQL APIs and cloud infrastructure is a plus. - Experience with ERP systems, manufacturing, or supply chain is a plus. ## Why You’ll Love It Here - Build the platforms that enterprises rely on to manufacture and deploy their IT equipment and hardware appliances. - Help grow Foundry’s engineering team in India, with real influence over how we build and how the team develops. - Work in a modern Elixir stack on a product with real users and real operational impact. - Significant, ongoing investment in modern tooling, including the best AI tools, and in the people who use it. - Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and genuine respect for work-life balance. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. India Employment Benefits include: Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership ## About AHEAD ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services - **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint. ## Products & Services - **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)* - **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)* - **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)* - **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)* - **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)* - **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)* - **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)* - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)* - **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)* ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company) - **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials). - **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale. ## Competitive Advantages - **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape. - **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion. - **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations. - **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software. - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines. - **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion. ## Sources 1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/) 2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/) 3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/) 4. 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