Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

• Spearhead the development of significant projects within the team, engaging in cross-team efforts related to Remote's HR and Payroll products.

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

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

• Provide constructive feedback during code reviews.

• Contribute to the collective codebase.

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical and business challenges.

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

• Mentor and guide fellow engineers.

• Investigate, propose, and assist in the implementation of platform improvements.

• Develop interfaces with an emphasis on performance, accessibility, and API design.

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

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

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

• Utilize verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure outcomes 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 enhancing them through iterative processes.

• Ability to think systemically: clearly define specifications, break down plans, implement verification, and ensure quality control.

• Proficiency with Postgres (or a similar database).

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

• Demonstrates strong automation skills and fluency in AI technologies.

• Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, React, Vue, or Angular.

🏝️ 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 available

• Budget allocated for learning and development

• Home office budget and IT equipment provided

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