Senior Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the development of significant team-focused projects and engage in cross-team initiatives related to Remote's HR and Payroll products.

• Actively engage in product-related tasks within the team: offer feedback, recommend solutions to challenges, and leverage technical insights to propose product enhancements.

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

• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews.

• Contribute to the shared codebase.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical and business challenges.

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

• Mentor and guide fellow engineers.

• Explore, propose, and assist in implementing enhancements to our platform.

• Develop interfaces with a focus on performance, accessibility, and API design.

• Redesign the process of how engineering work is executed using autonomous agents as the primary execution layer.

• Propose and implement end-to-end agentic workflows (specification → planning → execution → verification) to accelerate outcomes.

• Create reusable agentic workflows and building blocks in the codebase for teams to utilize repeatedly across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid 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 enhancing them through iterative improvements.

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

• Proficiency in Postgres (or an equivalent).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar).

• Strong capabilities in automation and AI, along with fluency in AI concepts.

• Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc. (preferred).

• Knowledge of Kubernetes (preferred).

• Understanding of Docker (preferred).

• Familiarity with AWS (preferred).

• Experience with Next.js (preferred).

• Proficiency in React/Vue/Angular (preferred).

🏝️ 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 co-working spaces.