Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

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

• 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 solid 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, such as support rotations, the hiring process, and RFC discussions.

• Mentor and offer guidance to fellow engineers.

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

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

• Redefine how engineering tasks are executed by making autonomous agents the standard execution layer.

• Propose and implement end-to-end agentic workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify) to accelerate outcome delivery.

• Develop reusable agentic workflows and building blocks within the codebase for repeated application across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals coupled with 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.

• Capacity to think systemically: clearly define specifications, decompose plans, implement verification measures, and ensure quality is upheld.

• Proficiency in Postgres (or a comparable database).

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

• Demonstrates strong capabilities in automation and AI, along with a good understanding of AI principles.

• Kubernetes experience (preferred).

• Familiarity with Docker (preferred).

• Experience with AWS (preferred).

• Understanding of Next.js (preferred).

• Knowledge of React, Vue, or Angular (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from any location.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Flexible working hours (we operate asynchronously).

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 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.