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Engineering Team Leader
Location
Worldwide
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$7.5K - $169.7K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Engineering Team Leader
Remote
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
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