[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for building tools, APIs, and integrations for Remote's products while working with a team of engineers across various domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products
• Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
• Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
• Provide feedback on code reviews
• Contribute to the shared codebase
• Debug and solve technical and business issues
• Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
• Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind
• Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer
• Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains
• Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable

Skills

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and improving them through iteration
• Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality
• Postgres (or similar)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are 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

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