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Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 501-1,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

North America

Posted

109 days ago

Salary

$53.3K - $119.9K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

Remote

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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).
  • Nice to have: 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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