Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

About the Company

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 asynchronously around the world. 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.

About the Role

You'll join cross-functional development teams (Frontend, Backend, SRE, QA) working on tools, APIs and integrations for Remote's products. The backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, using Postgres. Frontend uses React and Nextjs. GitLab is used for version control, issue tracking and CI/CD. Applications are hosted on AWS and deployments happen multiple times per day.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for HR and Payroll products.
• Actively participate in product work: provide feedback, suggest solutions and use technical expertise to propose product improvements.
• Maintain strong understanding of the team’s domain from both product and engineering perspectives.
• Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve technical and business issues; participate in support rotations and RFC discussions.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
• Investigate, propose and implement improvements to the platform with performance, accessibility and API design in mind.
• Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer and propose/operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify).
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives, and use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable and scalable.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a proven 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, break down plans, instrument verification and close the loop on quality.
• Experience with Postgres (or similar).
• Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar).
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Nextjs, React/Vue/Angular.

Skills / Technical Skills

• Elixir and Phoenix (backend)
• Postgres / relational databases
• CI/CD and GitLab
• Cloud hosting (AWS)
• Agentic/automation workflows and AI-driven automation

Benefits

• Complex and meaningful challenges with significant impact on enabling global work.
• Freedom to organize work and life with asynchronous collaboration.
• Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and other perks and benefits.
• Supportive environment with experienced engineers for professional growth.

Additional Information

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader.
• Team: Engineering.
• Location: Anywhere in the World.
• Start date: As soon as possible.
• Application process: interview with recruiter; interview with an Engineering Leader; asynchronous code exercise and review; interview with engineering team members; Bar Raiser interview; Executive interview with VP of Engineering; offer and prior employment verification check.
• Remote's salary ranges are determined by role, level and location; actual base pay depends on factors such as location.