Senior Backend Engineer

About Remote

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. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

The position

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.

Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Next.js for our front-end. GitLab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day. You can check out our Engineering Rulebook to learn more.

You can also check out this Keynote to learn how we evolved Remote's architecture and organisation to support a fast pace. We explore domain boundaries and dependency management alongside worker separation. You will also hear about ownership driven observability.

What this job can offer you

Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.

Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.

A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.

Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.

A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!

Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

What you bring

Must have (professional experience)

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.

Nice to have

Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Nextjs

React/Vue/Angular

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. 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.

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