Engineering Team Leader

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Asia.

📋 Description

• Overseeing a small product team comprising 3-5 engineers (both backend and frontend).

• Allocating 30% of the time to management duties while actively engaging in product development with the team.

• Participating in the hiring process for the team and potentially assisting colleagues with their hiring needs.

• Responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers in addition to involvement in hiring.

• Acting as the representative for the team, expected to manage team dynamics and maximize their potential.

• Providing ongoing and constructive feedback on various aspects.

• Assisting the team in continuous growth as a unit and taking responsibility for each direct report’s career development.

• Offering guidance and coaching to the team.

• Redesigning how engineering work is executed with autonomous agents as the default approach.

• Proposing and operationalizing end-to-end agentic workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify) to enhance outcome delivery speed.

• Developing reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase for teams to apply consistently across various domains.

• Implementing verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure results are accurate, secure, reliable, and scalable.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 individuals.

• Extensive background in Backend development (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming).

• Dedication to upholding all of Remote's values within the team and the broader organization.

• Strong engineering principles and a proven record of delivering production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.

• Practical experience in designing or implementing agentic/automation workflows (or similar systems) and enhancing them through iteration.

• Ability to think systematically: clearly define specifications, break down plans, implement verification, and ensure quality assurance.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Strong understanding of engineering and development principles and best practices.

• Proven organizational skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Focused on creating efficient processes with a compassionate, people-first approach.

• Capability to inspire others and foster confidence.

• Good understanding of team dynamics.

• Aiming for diversity, equality, and inclusion with ambition and intentionality.

• Demonstrates strong automation and AI competencies along with AI fluency.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Learning budget.

• Home office budget and IT equipment.

• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.