Team Leader, Engineering

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

As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for your team's work and act as their spokesperson. You will manage team dynamics, foster collaboration, and optimize execution, aiming to bring out the best in each team member. This role involves a blend of management duties (30% of your time) and active participation in product development within your team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• Actively participate in product development within your team.
• Be involved in hiring processes for your team and potentially assist peers.
• Be responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers.
• Manage team dynamics and foster individual growth.
• Provide continuous and constructive feedback.
• Facilitate the team's continuous growth and support each direct report's career development.
• Provide guidance and coaching to the team.
• Redesign how engineering work ships 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.

Requirements

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Backend development (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming).
• Commitment to promoting Remote's values within the team and organization.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and 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.
• Solid communication skills.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
• Ability to inspire others and instill confidence.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

• Reporting to: Engineering Manager
• Direct Reports: 2-5 Engineers
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start Date: As soon as possible

Application Process

• The process involves approximately 6 hours of interviews spread across 6 weeks, including interviews with a recruiter, Hiring Manager, team members, and executive leadership, along with an async code challenge and review.

Total Rewards

• Salary Range: $75,450—$169,700 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.