Engineering Team Leader

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

📋 Description

• Overseeing a small product team consisting of 3-5 engineers, both backend and frontend.

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

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

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

• Acting as the spokesperson for the team, responsible for managing team dynamics and maximizing individual potential.

• Providing ongoing and constructive feedback across various activities.

• Facilitating continuous growth for the team as a collective and taking responsibility for each direct report's career progression.

• Offering guidance and coaching to the team members.

• Redesigning the engineering workflow with autonomous agents as the standard execution layer.

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

• Creating reusable agentic workflows and primitives within the codebase, allowing teams to leverage them across multiple domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Extensive knowledge in Backend technologies (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 history of delivering production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.

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

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

• Excellent communication skills.

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

• Proven organizational skills with meticulous attention to detail.

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

• Capability to inspire others and foster confidence.

• Strong understanding of team dynamics.

• Ambitious and intentional regarding diversity, equity, 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.