Backend Engineer

Company: Remote
Location: Fully Remote (Anywhere in the World)

About Remote

Remote is revolutionizing global employment by enabling businesses to compliantly recruit, pay, and manage international teams with ease. Our team works asynchronously from six continents, tackling ambitious problems with innovation, automation, and AI at the core of our values. We encourage diverse talents and perspectives to build a best-in-class HR platform.

The Position

Join a cross-functional engineering team focused on building tools, APIs, and integrations for Remote's products. You will be assigned to a specific vertical team based on business needs and your preferences during the interview process. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, utilizing a Postgres database, while our frontend uses React and Next.js. We leverage GitLab for version control and CI/CD, hosting our applications on AWS and deploying multiple times daily.

What This Job Offers

• Meaningful Challenges: Solve complex problems that enable global employment.
• Significant Impact: Contribute to a rapidly growing early-stage company.
• Freedom & Flexibility: Organize your work and life with asynchronous operations and no daily standups.
• Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Supportive Environment: Work in a kind, collaborative environment that encourages innovation and challenges dogmas.
• Professional Growth: Learn from and be supported by a strong team of experienced engineers.

What You Bring

Must-Haves:

• Strong engineering fundamentals with a track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows 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).
• Demonstrated strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with Functional Programming languages (Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.).
• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS.
• Next.js, React/Vue/Angular.

Key Responsibilities

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

Practicals

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

Total Rewards

• Salary Range: $53,300—$119,850 USD (based on location, level, and experience)
• Benefits: Work from anywhere, flexible PTO, flexible working hours (async), 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health support, stock options, learning budget, home office budget & IT equipment, budget for local social events or co-working spaces.

How to Apply

Submit your CV in English. A LinkedIn profile can be submitted if a CV is not up-to-date. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.