Engineering Team Leader

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

📋 Description

• Overseeing a compact product team of 3-5 engineers, encompassing both backend and frontend roles.

• Allocating 30% of the time to management tasks, while actively engaging in product development within the team.

• Participating in the recruitment processes for their own team and potentially assisting colleagues in similar efforts.

• Taking responsibility for the onboarding process of new engineers, in addition to involvement in hiring.

• Acting as the representative for the team, managing team dynamics and fostering individual strengths.

• Providing ongoing and constructive feedback across various aspects.

• Supporting the team's continuous growth as a cohesive unit and being accountable for each direct report's career progression.

• Offering guidance and coaching to the team members.

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

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

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

• Employing 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 (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming).

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

• Strong engineering fundamentals with a proven history of delivering secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.

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

• Capability to think systemically: define specifications clearly, break down plans, implement verification, and complete the quality loop.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Comprehensive knowledge of engineering and development principles along with best practices.

• Proven organizational skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Focus on efficient processes while maintaining a kind, people-first approach.

• Ability to motivate others and instill confidence.

• Strong understanding of team dynamics.

• Ambitious and intentional about fostering diversity, equality, and inclusion.

• Demonstrates strong capabilities in automation and AI, with fluency in AI concepts.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Access to mental health support services.

• Stock options.

• Learning budget.

• Home office budget & IT equipment.

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