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. Outside of that actively participates in product development in their team. - Being involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers. - Responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers. - Manage team dynamics and bring out the best in team members. - 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. - 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. - Use 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 organisation. - 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 (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

• Lead, mentor, and develop an engineering team within the Pay Pillar. • Foster a culture of continuous learning, personal growth, and open communication to enhance team engagement and performance. • Actively participate in recruiting, onboarding, and building a diverse and inclusive team. • Provide strong technical guidance, ensuring best practices, scalability, and maintainability in all solutions. • Work closely with the Principal Engineer to prioritize and address technical challenges effectively. • Contribute hands-on where needed—reviewing code, supporting system design, and guiding the team in building complex distributed systems. • Partner with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineering teams to deliver cohesive, high-quality solutions. • Champion the observability strategy, ensuring service level objectives (SLOs) are defined and met. • Implement robust monitoring tools to proactively detect and address system issues. • Drive the execution of key technical projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining quality. • Regularly report to the Senior Engineering Manager on progress, strategy, and team challenges requiring support.

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• Team leadership: Line manage, mentor and grow a team of platform engineers and SREs. Build a high‑performing, psychologically safe culture that values learning, accountability and continuous improvement. • Technical strategy & delivery: Define and execute the platform roadmap including compute, networking, storage, CI/CD and Kubernetes‑based services. Balance technical debt, reliability work and new feature delivery. • Reliability & SLAs: Own SLIs/SLOs for platform services, drive reliability programmes, and ensure teams meet agreed availability and performance targets. • Observability & incident management: Champion end‑to‑end observability (metrics, tracing, logging), lead major incident responses, and run blameless post‑incident reviews with actionable RCA and follow‑through. • Automation & infrastructure as code: Promote automation-first approaches for provisioning, deployments and runbook automation using IaC and CI/CD best practice. • Security & compliance: Work closely with InfoSec to embed secure configurations, secrets management and compliance controls into the platform lifecycle.