Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer to join a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA, working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of Remote's products, using Elixir and Phoenix for backend, React and Next.js for frontend, and GitLab for version control and CI/CD, with a focus on automation and AI capabilities.

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible working hours (async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces