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Engineering Team Leader

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in the World

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Salary

💰 $75,450 - $169,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Managing a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
  • 30% of the time spent doing management work. Outside of that actively participates in product development in the their team.
  • Being involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers.
  • In addition to being involved in hiring, also being responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers.
  • By being the spokesperson for everyone in their team they are expected to manage the team dynamics and bring out the best in them.
  • Giving continuous and constructive feedback on all the things.
  • Helping the team to grow continuously as a group and is responsible for each direct report’s career.
  • Providing guidance and coaching to the team.
  • 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, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Requirements

  • Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
  • Extensive experience with Frontend (React, JS, ES6 and Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).
  • Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organisation.
  • Strong 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.
  • Solid communication skills.
  • Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
  • Proven organizational skills with attention to detail.
  • Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
  • Being able to inspire others and instill confidence.
  • Good understand of team dynamics.
  • Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality and inclusion.
Benefits
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
ReactJavaScriptES6JestElixirPhoenixagentic workflowsautomation workflowsproduction systemsverification loops
Soft Skills
communication skillsorganizational skillsattention to detailpeople-first approachinspiring othersteam dynamicscoachingfeedbackpromoting valuescommitment to diversity