Senior Backend Engineer
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Remote, you will join a dynamic team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA, organized into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. Remote is dedicated to simplifying global employment by enabling businesses to recruit, pay, and manage international teams with ease. With a presence across six continents, Remote offers a fully remote work environment that values innovation and asynchronous collaboration.
In this role, you will lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include building tools, APIs, and integrations for our products, maintaining a deep understanding of the team's domain from both product and engineering perspectives, providing feedback on code reviews, contributing to the shared codebase, debugging and solving technical and business issues, and mentoring other engineers. Additionally, you will be expected to propose and implement improvements to our platform, design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind, and operationalize agentic workflows to deliver outcomes faster.
The ideal candidate will have strong engineering fundamentals and a proven track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable. Required qualifications include practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows and improving them through iteration, the ability to think in systems by defining specs clearly, breaking down plans, instrumenting verification, and closing the loop on quality, as well as experience with Postgres (or similar) and CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins. Demonstrated strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency are also essential. Experience with functional programming languages like Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell, as well as familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, and React/Vue/Angular, are considered advantageous.
Remote offers a competitive salary, stock options, unlimited paid time off, and a comprehensive set of perks and benefits. These include the flexibility to work from anywhere, flexible working hours, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, mental health support services, a learning budget, a home office budget with IT equipment, and a budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces. The company fosters a supportive and kind work environment where innovation is encouraged, and employees are empowered to organize their work and life with a high degree of freedom.
At Remote, we embrace a culture that prioritizes asynchronous work, allowing you to plan your schedule around your life rather than meetings. You will be encouraged to take ownership, be proactive, and default to action when in doubt. Your work-life balance is important, and you will be supported in putting yourself and your family first, fitting work around your needs. If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, join us in defining the future of work.