Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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

📋 Description

• Lead the execution of significant team-focused projects and engage in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products.

• Actively contribute to product development within the team: offer feedback and propose solutions to challenges. Utilize technical knowledge and expertise to recommend product enhancements.

• Maintain a comprehensive 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-related issues.

• Engage in non-team activities, including support rotations, recruitment processes, RFC discussions, and more.

• Mentor and offer guidance to fellow engineers.

• Research, propose, and actively participate in the implementation of improvements to our platform.

• Develop interfaces by prioritizing performance, accessibility, and API design.

• Redefine the process of how engineering work is deployed with autonomous agents as the primary execution layer.

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

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

• Employ verification loops (tests, checks, evaluations, guardrails) to ensure results are accurate, secure, dependable, 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 systematically: articulate specifications clearly, deconstruct plans, implement verification, and ensure quality is maintained.

• Proficiency in Postgres (or a comparable database).

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

• Demonstrates robust automation and AI skills along with AI fluency.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, React/Vue/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.