Software Engineer
Company: Remote
Location: Anywhere in the World (Fully Remote)
Start Date: As soon as possible
About Remote
Remote is dedicated to simplifying global employment for organizations by enabling them to recruit, pay, and manage international teams compliantly and with ease. Our fully remote team operates asynchronously across six continents, united by core values and a future-focused work culture. We integrate Automation and AI capabilities into every role to tackle ambitious problems and build a best-in-class HR platform.
The Position
You will join a cross-functional engineering team (Frontend, Backend, SRE, QA) assigned to specific product verticals. The exact team placement will be determined during the interview process based on business needs and your preferences. You will contribute to building tools, APIs, and integrations for our products.
Our technology stack includes Elixir and Phoenix for the backend, Postgres for the database, React and Next.js for the frontend, GitLab for version control and CI/CD, and AWS for hosting. We deploy multiple times daily through our CI pipeline.
What This Job Can Offer You
- Impactful Challenges: Solve complex problems that enable global employment and business operations.
- Significant Business Impact: Contribute to a rapidly growing company where your changes are amplified.
- Flexibility: Enjoy freedom in organizing your work and life, with an asynchronous work culture that prioritizes work-life balance.
- Competitive Total Rewards: Receive a competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive benefits.
- Supportive Environment: Thrive in a kind and collaborative work environment that encourages innovation and challenges dogmas.
- Professional Growth: Benefit from mentorship and support 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 (or comparable systems) and iteratively improving them.
- Systems thinking ability: defining clear specs, breaking down plans, instrumenting verification, and ensuring 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 Have:
- Experience with Functional Programming languages (e.g., Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell).
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, React/Vue/Angular.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for HR and Payroll products.
- Actively contribute to product work, 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, such as support rotations and the hiring process.
- Mentor and guide other engineers.
- Investigate, propose, and implement platform improvements.
- Build interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind.
- Redesign engineering work delivery using autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
- Propose and operationalize end-to-end agentic workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify) for faster delivery.
- Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives within the codebase.
- Utilize verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.
Practicals
- Team: Engineering
- Location: Anywhere in the World
Compensation
- Annual Salary Range: $53,300 - $119,850 USD. The actual base pay depends on factors like location, skills, experience, business needs, and market demands. Geo ranges are used to consider geographic pay differentials.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off
- Flexible working hours (asynchronous)
- 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.