Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

• Spearhead the development of significant projects within the team’s scope and engage in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products.

• Actively involve yourself in product-related tasks within the team: offer feedback and propose solutions to challenges. Leverage technical insights and expertise to recommend enhancements to the product.

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

• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews.

• Contribute to the collective codebase.

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

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

• Mentor and guide fellow engineers.

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

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

• Redesign the process of how engineering work is delivered by making autonomous agents the default execution layer.

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

• Create reusable agentic workflows and components within the codebase, enabling teams to apply them consistently across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Capability to think systemically: articulate specifications clearly, deconstruct plans, implement verification mechanisms, and ensure quality assurance.

• Proficiency in Postgres (or a similar database).

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

• Exhibits strong automation capabilities and fluency in AI technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ability to work from any location.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (our operations are asynchronous).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Access to mental health support services.

• Stock options available.

• Learning budget for professional development.

• Home office budget and IT equipment provided.

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