Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the execution of significant team-focused projects and engage in cross-team collaborations for Remote's HR and Payroll offerings.

• Actively engage in product development within the team: offer feedback, propose solutions to issues, and leverage technical knowledge to recommend product enhancements.

• Maintain a solid understanding of the team’s area, encompassing both product and engineering perspectives.

• Provide constructive feedback during code review sessions.

• Contribute to the collective codebase.

• Troubleshoot and address technical and business challenges.

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

• Mentor fellow engineers and provide them with guidance.

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

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

• Redefine the process of how engineering tasks are executed with autonomous agents as the standard execution layer.

• Propose 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 utilize consistently across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong engineering principles 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 continuous improvement.

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

• Proficiency in Postgres (or a similar database system).

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

• Nice to have: experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, and 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 available.

• Learning budget provided.

• Home office budget and IT equipment supplied.

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