
Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir
Remote
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in North America
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Salary
💰 $53,300 - $119,850 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
- Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
- Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform.
- Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, 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, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.
Requirements
- 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.
- Postgres (or similar).
- CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar).
- Nice to have: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular
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
agentic workflowsautomation workflowsPostgresCI/CDKubernetesDockerAWSNextjsReactVue
Soft Skills
mentoringproblem-solvingfeedbackcommunicationcollaborationsystem thinkingguidanceparticipation in cross-team initiativescode reviewiteration