Remote
SeniorBackendEngineer(Elixir)
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“Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) at Remote. Skills: Backend Engineering, Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, AWS, CI/CD, Automation, AI. Lead the development of major team-scoped projects. participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products”
What You'll Achieve.
shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable; improving them through iteration; close the loop on quality; deliver outcomes faster; ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable
Industry & Context.
solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge; navigating global employment compliantly with ease; ambitious problems; solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world; Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business; Debug and solve technical and business issues; Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform; deliver outcomes faster; ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable
work from anywhere, flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks paid parental leave, mental health support services, stock options, learning budget, home office budget & IT equipment budget, local in-person social events or co-working spaces, support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable, Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and improving them through iteration, Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality, Postgres (or similar), CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar), Demonstrates automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
Nice to Have
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular
What You'll Do.
Lead the development of major team-scoped projects
participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products
Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback
suggest solutions to the problems
Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain
both from product and engineering sides
Provide feedback on code reviews
Contribute to the shared codebase
Debug and solve technical and business issues
Participate in non-team activities
such as support rotations
Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
Implement interfaces with performance
and API design in mind
Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer
Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster
Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains
Use verification loops (tests
guardrails) to ensure results are correct
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA; organised into cross-functional development teams; participate in cross-team initiatives; Provide feedback on code reviews; Contribute to the shared codebase; Participate in non-team activities; Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers; team of experienced engineers
Communication Scope
define specs clearly; Provide feedback on code reviews; Provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems; Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements; Provide feedback on code reviews; RFC discussions
Process & Methodology
break down plans, operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify)
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 Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker 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 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 you Complex and meaningful challenges — solv
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