Senior Backend Engineer (AI)

Senior Backend Engineer

Company

Remote

Conditions

Full-time Senior 🌎 World 💻 Development 🏠 Remote Job description

What you’ll do

• 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

Must have (professional experience):

• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Qualifications

Not explicitly separated in original text beyond the above must-have and nice-to-have; see Must have and Nice to have lists for qualifications.

Benefits

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (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

Team description

You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and exact team assignment will be defined during interview based on business needs and preferences.

Tech stack

Backend: Elixir and Phoenix with a Postgres database. Frontend: React and Next.js.CI/CD: GitLab. Hosting: AWS. Deployments: multiple times per day via CI. See Engineering Rulebook for details. Apply for this job Please mention "I found this job at Remocate!"

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