Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

🕒 May 20

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Remote

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501 - 1000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• 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. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular.

🏖️ 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