Remote
SeniorBackendEngineer
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“Senior Backend Engineer at Remote. Skills: Backend development, Agentic workflows, Automation, AI. Lead development of projects. Participate in cross-team initiatives”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver outcomes faster
Industry & Context.
Solve technical issues; Solve business issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Engineering fundamentals, Shipping production systems, Secure, reliable, scalable systems, Designing agentic workflows, Improving agentic workflows, Thinking in systems, Define specs clearly, Break down plans, Instrument verification, Close the loop on quality, Postgres or similar, CI/CD, Automation and AI capabilities, AI fluency
Nice to Have
Functional Programming languages, Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular
What You'll Do.
Lead development of projects
Participate in cross-team initiatives
Participate in product work
Provide feedback on product
Suggest product solutions
Use technical insights
Suggest product improvements
Maintain domain understanding
Provide feedback on code reviews
Contribute to codebase
Debug technical issues
Solve business issues
Participate in support rotations
Participate in hiring process
Participate in RFC discussions
Provide guidance to engineers
Investigate platform improvements
Propose platform improvements
Implement platform improvements
Redesign engineering work shipping
Propose agentic workflows
Operationalize agentic workflows
Build reusable agentic workflows
Build agentic primitives
Use verification loops
Ensure results are correct
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional development teams; Frontend, Backend, SRE, QA teams
Communication Scope
Code reviews
Full Job Description
About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! The position You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Next.js for our front-end. GitLab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day. You can check out our Engineering Rulebook to learn more. You can also check out this Keynote to learn how we evolved Remote's architecture and organisation to support a fast pace. We explore domain boundaries and dependency management alongside worker separation. You will also hear about ownership driven observability. What this job can offer
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