Senior Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take the lead in developing significant projects scoped by the team and engage in cross-team initiatives related to Remote's HR and Payroll products.

• Actively involve yourself in product-related tasks within the team: provide constructive feedback and propose solutions to challenges. Utilize your technical knowledge and expertise to recommend product enhancements.

• Maintain a strong understanding of the team’s domain from both product and engineering perspectives.

• Offer feedback during code reviews.

• Contribute to the collective codebase.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical and business-related issues.

• Engage in activities outside the team, such as support rotations, the hiring process, and RFC discussions.

• Mentor and guide fellow engineers.

• Research, propose, and participate in the implementation of enhancements to our platform.

• Design interfaces with a focus on performance, accessibility, and API architecture.

• Reimagine how engineering tasks are delivered with autonomous agents as the standard execution layer.

• Suggest and implement agentic workflows from start to finish (specification → planning → execution → verification) to expedite outcomes.

• Develop reusable agentic workflows and components within the codebase for teams to apply consistently across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Hands-on experience in designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or similar systems) and iteratively enhancing them.

• Capability to think systematically: clearly define specifications, break down plans, implement verification, and ensure quality is maintained.

• Proficiency in Postgres (or a similar database).

• Experience with CI/CD tools (such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar).

• Nice to have: Familiarity with Functional Programming languages like Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.; experience with Kubernetes; Docker; AWS; Next.js; React/Vue/Angular.

🏝️ 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.