Anywhere in the World Remote (Global) Employment USD 53,300 – 119,850 / year

Remote is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

  • 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

  • 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

Benefits

  • Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
  • Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
  • A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
  • A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
  • Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

Team

Structure: Cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. Teams include Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA.

Additional Information

  • Application process includes: Interview with Recruiter, Interview with an Engineering Leader, (async) Code exercise and review, Interview with members of the engineering team, Bar Raiser interview, Executive interview, Offer + Prior employment verification check
About company
Remote
Remote solves modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. The company enables businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. Remote has built Automation and AI capabilities into its HR platform to support the future of work.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 14 days ago