Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

• You will be part of a diverse team of engineers specializing in Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA.

• Our structure consists of cross-functional development teams dedicated to specific verticals.

• This position is available across multiple teams, and the precise team you will join will be determined during the interview process based on business requirements and your preferences.

• No matter which team you join, your focus will be on developing tools, APIs, and integrations for one of our products.

• Our backend technology stack includes Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. For our front-end, we utilize React and Next.js. GitLab serves as our version control system, issue tracker, and CI/CD solution. All applications are hosted on AWS, and we depend entirely on our CI for deployments, executing multiple deployments each day.

• Lead the development of significant projects scoped within the team and engage in cross-team initiatives related to Remote's HR and Payroll products.

• Actively engage in the product development process within the team: provide insights, propose solutions to challenges, and leverage technical expertise to recommend product enhancements.

• Maintain a solid 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 technical and business challenges.

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

• Mentor and guide fellow engineers.

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

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

• Redefine how engineering tasks are executed with autonomous agents as the primary execution layer.

• Propose and implement agentic workflows from start to finish (spec → plan → execute → verify) to accelerate outcomes.

• Create reusable agentic workflows and primitives within the codebase for teams to utilize across various domains.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Practical experience in designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or similar systems) and enhancing them through iterative improvements.

• Capability to think in systems: articulate specifications clearly, decompose plans, implement verification, and ensure quality is maintained.

• Experience with Postgres (or a comparable database).

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

• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities along with fluency in AI concepts.

• Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, and frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere

• 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 & IT equipment

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