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.
Engineering Team Leader
Location
Worldwide
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$75.5K - $169.7K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Engineering Team Leader
Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams
Role Description A Team Leader is responsible for all the work of a team and the spokesperson for everyone in it. They are expected to manage the team dynamics and always bring the best in everyone. A team leader is not expected to be the best in a team but rather help others become the best version there is and gear the team towards optimised execution. Key Responsibilities: - Managing a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend). - 30% of the time spent doing management work; actively participates in product development in their team. - Involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially helps out their peers. - Responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers. - Expected to manage team dynamics and bring out the best in them. - Giving continuous and constructive feedback. - Helping the team grow continuously as a group and responsible for each direct report’s career. - Providing guidance and coaching to the team. - Redesigning how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer. - Proposing and operationalizing agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster. - Building reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase for repeated application across domains. - Using verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable. Qualifications - Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people. - Extensive experience with Backend (Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby or functional programming). - Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organization. - 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. - Solid communication skills. - Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices. - Proven organizational skills with attention to detail. - Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach. - Ability to inspire others and instill confidence. - Good understanding of team dynamics. - Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality, and inclusion. - Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency. Requirements - You'll report to: Engineering Manager - Direct reports: 2-5 Engineers - Team: Engineering - Location: Anywhere in the world - Start date: As soon as possible 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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