We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend focus to build and scale a platform centered around APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud infrastructure. The role includes some frontend exposure, but the primary focus is backend architecture and services.

Role Description The CIO Division provides a range of enabling services and operations delivery to the department and to Australian businesses and is seeking experienced and motivated .Net developers with a minimum of 5 years' experience to assist with the delivery of various ICT Projects across the Division. - Develop and maintain Azure based web API and Portal applications to support existing legislative reporting requirements, and new regulatory processes. - Integrate various system components to achieve a seamless end to end experience for users. - Provide technical advice on issues related to systems development. - Apply secure coding practices/processes to ensure solutions delivered are secure and robust. - Conduct peer reviews of code and infrastructure. - Understand and code against detailed application architecture documents. - Ensure that best practice and Departmental standards are applied and managed. - Create and review technical/release documentation. - Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Effectively collaborate with a cross-functional team working with an agile structure. - Collaborate and mentor team members to promote team harmony and support cross-skilling professional development. - Instil a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a team environment. - Undertake additional duties as required. Qualifications - Demonstrated experience (Min 5 years) implementing secure web based business solutions. - Experience developing web APIs using Azure API Manager and customer facing web portal development using .NET Framework (including .NET Core) and ASP.NET. - Experience developing web applications using either Angular or React. - Familiarity with the Information Security Manual (ISM), its controls and how to apply them to a solution design and build. - Experience with unit/integration/automation testing. Familiarity with xUnit, nUnit, Selenium, Playwright.Net. Requirements - Demonstrated experience in cloud-based solution implementation with technologies such as Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Manager. - Experience with Azure DevOps and Visual Studio for code development, management, repositories, and deployments (CI/CD). - Integrating custom built apps with third-party systems, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM. - Extensive experience developing on Azure platforms. - Demonstrated experience in successfully optimizing complex legacy code to fully utilize benefits of Azure Cloud environment. - Experience working with Agile multi-disciplinary teams to deliver secure, user friendly and reliable solutions that meet stakeholder, citizen, and business expectations. - Ability to pragmatically change direction and scope as new information is discovered and challenges or opportunities present themselves. - Ability to work with geographically dispersed teams. - Ability to work with technical and non-technical staff at all levels. - Ability to collaborate and mentor team members to promote team harmony. Desirable Criteria - Experience in development using Agile and DevOps delivery models. - Experience developing web applications using either Angular or React. - Integration/UI/FrontEnd testing: Selenium, Playwright.Net, Jest. - Tertiary qualifications in software design and development and experience working with SQL servers, Cosmos DB, Blob storage and high-volume data traffic/processing. How to Apply Please provide an updated CV (a maximum of 3-5 pages) to reflect your suitability to the role based on the job description. You will also need to complete responses to the essential and desirable criteria which is no more than 5000 characters for each response. Your application will be reviewed based on ability to demonstrate, or potential to develop, the capabilities required.

Position: Product Backend Engineer Location: 100% Remote in Poland Type: This can be structured as a B2B contract or as an Employment Contract with full benefits. Salary: $102,700 - $124,800 + stock options. Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail AI solutions. We are headquartered in San Francisco, California with operations in Canada and the UK, and a tech-hub in Poland. We are a Deep Learning first company. Our mission is to automate and optimize brick and mortar retail using deep learning computer vision. Focal Systems has been deployed at scale with some of the top retailers in the world. We seek smart, creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company and deploy Deep Learning to the world! What we’re looking for We’re looking for a dynamic backend engineer (Python), who is a self-starter, enjoys taking ownership, and can effectively manage tasks, projects, and problem-solve. You’re a dynamic engineer who is an effective communicator and enjoys an environment of collaboration. You want to have a big impact and like to push trends in web development in order to create a memorable experience across our brand. What you will do You will work with a talented team to continually iterate and improve the experience of our internal and external users. You will be empowered to drive innovation by coming up with new and exciting ideas to creatively solve issues, as well as actively look for opportunities to improve the design and interface of our core web presence. Additionally, you will - Work with our engineering teams to understand their backend needs and ensure data persists in usable formats for front-end, middleware, diagnostics, and Deep Learning - Build deployment monitoring tools - Manage blue/green deployments or canary deployments to ensure smooth launches without downtime - Create tools to provide transparency/ease of access into the company's rich datasets stored across varying geographic locations and data formats - Build scalable backend infrastructure using Python and Flask/FastAPI What you need to be successful Bachelor's Degree or higher in CS, EE or equivalent - 6+ years of professional software development experience as a backend engineer - 3+ years of experience with Python - Extensive experience with REST APIs - Experience working with data intensive applications & microservices - Experience with Redux is a plus - Experience with CI/CD tools, Docker and knowledge of cloud deployments a plus - Startup mentality, team player - Fluent in Polish with advanced English skills (written & spoken) - Excellent communication, presentation, and demonstration skills - Flexibility in adjusting working hours to meet the needs of the global and time zone-diverse team (urgent tasks or meetings may occur outside of regular CEST working hours) - Strong work ethic and commitment to completing assigned tasks and projects within established deadlines - Previous success in developing large-scale web application with a user-focus mindset Why Focal Systems Strong Values and Mission - We are a tightly-knit team with an ambitious mission and a strong set of core values, which define our approach to business and have successfully guided us since inception. Exceptional Team - We are a team of hard-working, fun-loving professionals from some of the most eminent universities, research labs, and tech companies of our time. We pride ourselves on recruiting exceptional individuals to help us redefine the state-of-the-art. Outstanding Partners - We work with 10+ of the largest retailers in the world and have a world-class roster of investors, advisors and partners to support & advise us in our endeavors. What we offer We care deeply about the health, happiness, and wellbeing of all of our employees. We offer: - Competitive Salary & Attractive Stock - Paid Time Off - Team Retreats - Education grants Note: Our pay bands are driven by market benchmarks in the target geography for hiring. Our posted ranges typically include multiple job levels. A candidate's level is determined by their performance throughout our talent acquisition process including technical screens, behavior interviews, presentations, work samples, and references. We will communicate transparently with the candidate at final stages regarding how we have leveled them, and what salary range that places them into. Placement within range is equally determined by education, general experience in your profession, specific experience in our domain, and your performance in the talent acquisition process. It is rare to receive an offer at the top of the range for a role.

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! The position You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day. What this job can offer you - Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world. - Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth. - A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies. - Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits. - A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation! - Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth. What you bring Must have (professional experience): - 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 Key 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. Practicals - Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader - Team: Engineering - Location: Anywhere in the World - Start date: As soon as possible Application process - Interview with our recruiter - Interview with an Engineering Leader - (async) Code exercise and review - Interview with members of the engineering team - Bar Raiser Interview - Executive Interview with VP of Engineering - Offer and Prior employment verification check Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change. At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $53,300—$119,850 USD Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: - 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 How you’ll plan your day (and life) We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. If that sounds like something you want, apply now! How to apply - Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. - We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. - If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.