Senior Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Remote is solving the global employment challenge by enabling businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly and with ease. Our team operates asynchronously across 6 continents, driven by innovation and a future-focused work culture. We integrate automation and AI into the core requirements of every role.

We are seeking talented Backend Engineers to join our cross-functional development teams. You will contribute to building tools, APIs, and integrations for our core products. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, utilizing a Postgres database, and we leverage React and Next.js for our front-end. Deployments are frequent, happening multiple times a day via our CI/CD pipeline on AWS.

What This Job Can Offer You:

• Meaningful Challenges: Solve complex problems that enable global employment and business operations.
• Significant Impact: Contribute to a rapidly growing company where your changes are amplified.
• Freedom & Flexibility: Organize your work and life with minimal ceremonies like daily standups. We are async-first.
• Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Supportive Environment: Work within a kind and supportive environment that encourages challenging dogmas and pursuing innovation.
• Professional Growth: Collaborate with and learn from a strong team of experienced engineers.

What You Bring:

Must Have (Professional 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 improving them through iteration.
• Systems thinking: Ability to define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and ensure quality.
• Proficiency 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:

• 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 work, providing feedback and suggesting solutions. Use technical insights to propose 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 improvements to our platform.
• 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 (spec → plan → execute → verify) to accelerate delivery.
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives for repeated application across domains.
• Utilize 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

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 in-person social events or co-working spaces.

Salary Range: $53,300—$119,850 USD