Senior Backend Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the development of significant projects within the team, engaging in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll offerings.

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

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

• Offer constructive feedback during code reviews.

• Contribute to the collective codebase.

• Troubleshoot and resolve both technical and business-related issues.

• Involve yourself in activities beyond the team, such as support rotations, recruitment processes, and RFC discussions.

• Mentor fellow engineers and offer guidance.

• Explore, suggest, and take part in the implementation of enhancements to our platform.

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

• Reimagine the engineering workflow, making autonomous agents the standard execution layer.

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

• Create reusable agentic workflows and components in the codebase for teams to utilize consistently across various domains.

• Implement verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure results are accurate, secure, dependable, and scalable.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid engineering fundamentals with a proven history of deploying production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.

• Hands-on experience in designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or similar systems) and refining them through iterative processes.

• Capacity to conceptualize in systems: articulate specifications clearly, decompose plans, implement verification, and maintain quality control.

• Proficiency in Postgres (or similar databases).

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from any location.

• 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 and IT equipment.

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