Remote is hiring an Engineering Team Leader

Responsibilities

• Manage the team dynamics and always bring the best in everyone.
• Help others become the best version there is and gear the team towards optimised execution.
• Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• Actively participate in product development in the their team.
• Being involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers.
• Being responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers.
• Manage the team dynamics and bring out the best in them.
• Giving continuous and constructive feedback on all the things.
• Help the team to grow continuously as a group and is responsible for each direct report’s career.
• Provide 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.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Team

Team size: 3-5. Structure: Engineering

Additional Information

• You'll report to: Engineering Manager
• Direct reports: 2-5 Engineers
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible
• Application process Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks
• 1. Interview with recruiter
• 2. Interview with Hiring Manager
• 3. (async) Code challenge + review
• 4. Interview with team members
• 5. Bar Raiser Interview
• 6. Executive Interview
• 7. Offer and Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)
• We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates.
• We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
• At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context.
• At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.
• We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level.
• The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.
• The base salary range may be subject to change.
• At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness.
• Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
• The annual salary range for this full-time position is $75,450 - $169,700 USD
• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are 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
• You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive.
• When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting.
• Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
• We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below.
• As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable.
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• Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.