Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

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

• Actively involve yourself in team product work: provide insights, propose solutions to challenges, and leverage your technical knowledge to enhance product functionality.

• Maintain a thorough 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.

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

• Mentor fellow engineers and offer guidance.

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

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

• Transform the process of how engineering work is delivered by utilizing autonomous agents as the primary execution layer.

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

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

• Employ verification mechanisms (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure outcomes are accurate, secure, dependable, and scalable.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Ability to adopt a systems thinking approach: clearly define specifications, decompose plans, implement verification, and maintain a focus on quality.

• Experience with Postgres (or similar databases).

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

• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes.

• Nice to have: Experience with Docker.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with AWS.

• Nice to have: Experience with Next.js.

• Nice to have: Proficiency in React/Vue/Angular.

🏝️ 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 and IT equipment.

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