Backend Engineer

Remote is seeking talented Backend Engineers to join our cross-functional development teams. You will contribute to building tools, APIs, and integrations for our core products, working in an agile, asynchronous environment. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, utilizing a Postgres database, while our frontend uses React and Nextjs. We leverage GitLab for version control and CI/CD, with applications hosted on AWS.

About Remote:

Remote is solving the complexities of global employment, enabling businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly and with ease. We foster a future-focused work culture driven by innovation, with team members working asynchronously from 6 continents.

The Position:

You will join a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA, organized into cross-functional teams assigned to specific verticals. The exact team placement will be determined during the interview process based on business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the team, your focus will be on developing essential product features.

What This Job Can Offer You:

• Complex and meaningful challenges that impact global employment.
• Opportunity for significant impact within an early-stage, fast-growing company.
• Freedom to organize your work and life with an asynchronous approach (no daily standups or recurring meetings).
• Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and other benefits.
• A supportive and kind work environment that encourages innovation.
• A strong team of experienced engineers to facilitate professional growth.

What You Bring:

Must Have (Professional Experience):

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and improving them through iteration.
• Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and ensure quality.
• Experience with Postgres (or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar).
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for HR and Payroll products.
• Actively participate in product work, providing feedback and suggesting solutions.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the team’s domain (product and engineering).
• Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve technical and business issues.
• Participate in non-team activities (support rotations, hiring, RFC discussions).
• Mentor and guide other engineers.
• Investigate, propose, and implement platform improvements.
• Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind.
• Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end.
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives.
• Use verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Practicals:

• Reporting Line: Engineering Team Leader.
• Team: Engineering.
• Location: Anywhere in the World.
• Start Date: As soon as possible.

Application Process:

1. Interview with Recruiter.
2. Interview with Engineering Leader.
3. (Async) Code exercise and review.
4. Interview with Engineering Team Members.
5. Bar Raiser Interview.
6. Executive Interview with VP of Engineering.
7. Offer and Prior Employment Verification Check.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Salary Range: $53,300 - $119,850 USD annually.
• Geo ranges are used to consider geographic pay differentials.
• Benefits include work from anywhere, flexible paid time off, flexible working hours (async), 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health support, stock options, learning budget, home office budget & IT equipment, and budget for local social events/co-working spaces.

Remote fosters internal mobility and ensures pay equity and fairness. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and offer accommodations upon request.