Responsibilities
- 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
- 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.
Additional Information
- Start date: As soon as possible
- Application process takes roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks
- Prior employment verification check is part of the hiring process
