Senior Backend Engineer
Apply NowRemote is solving modern organisations’ biggest challenge — navigating global employment compliantly and with ease. They make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. The Remote team works asynchronously around the world from 6 continents (Antarctica still to go) and all positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of their core values, Remote has built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role — and they encourage every team member to bring their talents, experiences, and culture to help build the best-in-class HR platform.
You’ll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA — organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and the exact team will be defined during the interview process based on business needs and your preferences.
Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs, and integrations for one of Remote’s products — and you’ll be expected to help redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
- Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country in the world
- Significant impact on the business — Remote is still early in its journey and each change you make today is amplified by the company’s growth
- A lot of freedom to organise your work and life — no daily standups, recurring meetings, or other ceremonies
- Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a comprehensive set of perks and benefits
- A supportive and kind work environment where you are encouraged to challenge dogmas and pursue innovation
- A strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth
- Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote’s HR and Payroll products
- Actively participate in product work — provide feedback, suggest solutions to problems, and use technical insights to drive product improvements
- Maintain a strong understanding of the team’s domain, from both product and engineering perspectives
- Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase
- Debug and solve technical and business issues
- Participate in non-team activities including support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, and more
- Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
- Investigate, propose, and participate in the implementation of platform improvements
- Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer
- Propose and operationalise agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster
- Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains
- Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable
- Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable
- Practical experience designing or adopting agentic or 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 relational database experience in a professional setting
- CI/CD experience with GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar
- Experience with functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
- Familiarity with Next.js, React, Vue, or Angular on the frontend
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