Engineering Team Leader

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

📋 Description

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

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

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

• In addition to hiring, taking charge of the onboarding process for new engineers.

• Acting as the representative for the team, expected to manage team dynamics and enhance performance.

• Providing ongoing and constructive feedback on various aspects.

• Facilitating continuous growth for the team as a unit and being accountable for each direct report's career development.

• Offering guidance and coaching to team members.

• Redesigning the engineering workflow to utilize autonomous agents as the primary execution layer.

• Proposing and implementing agentic workflows from end-to-end (specification → planning → execution → verification) to accelerate delivery of outcomes.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience managing an engineering team of a minimum of 2 individuals.

• Significant expertise in Frontend (React, JS, ES6, and Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).

• 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 iterative improvements.

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

• Excellent communication skills.

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

• Proven organizational abilities with a keen eye for detail.

• Commitment to efficient processes while maintaining a kind, people-first approach.

• Ability to inspire and instill confidence in others.

• Good comprehension of team dynamics.

• Ambitious and purposeful commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

🏝️ 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 available.

• Budget for learning opportunities.

• Home office budget and IT equipment provided.

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