Engineering Team Leader

Remote

. Managing a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldSenior💰 $75,450 - $169,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ElixirRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 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

What you’ll need

Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
Extensive experience with Backend (Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby or functional programming).
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.
Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

ElixirPhoenixRubyfunctional programmingautomation workflowsengineering principlesdevelopment best practicesverification loopsscalable systemssecure systems

Soft Skills

team managementcommunication skillsorganizational skillsattention to detailpeople-first approachinspiring othersconfidence instillationunderstanding team dynamicscommitment to diversitycoaching