Senior Backend Engineer

About Remote

Remote is revolutionizing global employment by enabling businesses to navigate international hiring compliantly and with ease. We empower companies of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Our core values and future-focused work culture drive our team to tackle ambitious problems asynchronously, from anywhere in the world. Join us, and help define the future of work!

About the Role

Join a dynamic team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA. You will be part of cross-functional development teams focused on specific product verticals. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to building essential tools, APIs, and integrations for our core products. Our tech stack includes Elixir and Phoenix for the backend, PostgreSQL for the database, and React/Next.js for the frontend. We leverage GitLab for version control, issue tracking, and CI/CD, with applications hosted on AWS. We deploy multiple times daily, relying heavily on our CI for smooth releases.

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 based on technical insights.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the team's domain from both product and engineering perspectives.
• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and resolve technical and business issues effectively.
• Participate in non-team activities such as support rotations, hiring processes, and RFC discussions.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, fostering professional growth.
• Investigate, propose, and implement platform improvements.
• Implement interfaces with a focus on performance, accessibility, and API design.
• Redesign engineering workflows to leverage autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to accelerate delivery.
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives for widespread team application.
• Utilize verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure correctness, security, reliability, and scalability.

What You Bring

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a proven track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and iterating to improve them.
• Ability to think in systems: define clear specifications, 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, with AI fluency.

Nice to Have:

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Next.js
• React/Vue/Angular

Practicals

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

What This Job Can Offer You

• Complex and meaningful challenges that enable people and businesses worldwide.
• Significant impact on a rapidly growing company.
• High degree of freedom to organize your work and life, with an asynchronous work culture.
• Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and comprehensive benefits.
• A supportive and innovative work environment.
• A strong team of experienced engineers dedicated to your professional growth.

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

Salary Range

$53,300—$119,850 USD annually

How to Apply

Please fill out the form and upload your CV in PDF format (English). If you don't have an updated CV, feel free to provide a link to your LinkedIn profile.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.