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Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir
Location
Canada
Posted
27 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).
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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