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Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams

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.

Senior Backend Engineer

Location

Worldwide

Posted

4 days ago

Salary

$53.3K - $119.9K / year

Seniority

Senior

Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer

Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams

Role Description 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. - Backend built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. - Frontend using React and Next.js. - GitLab as version control tool, issue tracker, and CI/CD solution. - Applications hosted on AWS with multiple deployments per day. Keynote available to learn how we evolved Remote's architecture and organisation to support a fast pace. Qualifications - 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. Requirements - Must have experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, React/Vue/Angular. Benefits - Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits. - Work from anywhere. - Flexible working hours (we are async). - 16 weeks paid parental leave. - Mental health support services. - Learning budget. - Home office budget & IT equipment. - Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces. 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. - 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.

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