Backend Engineer - AI & Automation

About Remote

Remote is revolutionizing global employment by enabling businesses to hire, pay, and manage international teams with ease and compliance. We foster a future-focused, asynchronous, and fully remote work culture, with team members spanning six continents. Innovation is a core value, driving us to integrate Automation and AI capabilities into every role.

The Role

Join our cross-functional engineering team, working on building tools, APIs, and integrations for our core products. You'll be part of a team using Elixir and Phoenix for the backend, React and Next.js for the frontend, hosted on AWS, with GitLab for version control and CI/CD. We deploy multiple times daily, embracing a fast-paced, iterative development cycle.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote’s HR and Payroll products.
• Actively contribute to product development, providing feedback and suggesting solutions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the team’s domain, both product and engineering aspects.
• Provide constructive feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and resolve technical and business issues.
• Participate in broader engineering activities like support rotations, hiring, and RFC discussions.
• Mentor and guide other engineers.
• Investigate, propose, and implement platform improvements.
• Implement interfaces with a focus on performance, accessibility, and API design.
• Redesign engineering workflows using autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) for faster delivery.
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives for repeated application across domains.
• Utilize verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure correctness, security, reliability, and scalability.

What You Bring

• Must-Have Experience:
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a proven track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows and iterating to improve them.
• Systems thinking: ability to define clear specs, break down plans, instrument verification, and ensure quality.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL (or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar).
• Demonstrated strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.
• Nice-to-Have Experience:
• Functional Programming languages (Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.).
• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS.
• Next.js, React/Vue/Angular.

What This Job Offers

• Complex, meaningful challenges with global impact.
• Significant opportunity to influence the business in an early-stage company.
• High degree of autonomy in organizing work and life, with an async-first culture.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive benefits.
• A supportive and innovative work environment.
• Mentorship from a strong team of experienced engineers.

Practicals

• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start Date: As soon as possible

Compensation

• Annual salary range: $53,300—$119,850 USD

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local social events or co-working spaces

Application Process

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

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