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[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a team of engineers working on building tools, APIs, and integrations for their products, primarily using Elixir and Phoenix.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • 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)
  • Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Flexible working hours (we areasync)
  • 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

Company Overview

  • Remote is an employment, payroll, and HR platform for modern, distributed businesses. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://remote.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Remote has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 2 in 2024, 2 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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