Engineering Team Leader

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

📋 Description

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

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

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

• Overseeing the onboarding process for new engineers in addition to recruitment duties.

• Acting as the representative for the team, responsible for managing team dynamics and fostering peak performance.

• Providing ongoing and constructive feedback on various tasks.

• Supporting the team in their continuous development and being accountable for each direct report’s career progression.

• Offering guidance and coaching to team members.

• Redefining how engineering tasks are executed with autonomous agents as the standard execution layer.

• Proposing and implementing end-to-end agentic workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify) to accelerate outcomes.

• Creating reusable agentic workflows and primitives within the codebase for teams to apply across different domains.

• Utilizing verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure the accuracy, security, reliability, and scalability of results.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Solid engineering foundations and a proven history of delivering secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.

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

• Capability to think systemically: clearly define specifications, decompose plans, implement verification, and maintain quality control.

• Excellent communication skills.

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

• Proven organizational abilities with a keen attention to detail.

• Focused on efficient processes while maintaining a kind, people-centered approach.

• Ability to inspire others and foster confidence.

• Good understanding of team dynamics.

• Ambitious and intentional regarding diversity, equality, and inclusion.

• Demonstrates robust automation and AI capabilities 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 & IT equipment.

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