Senior Backend Engineer

About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best‑in‑class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work

The position
You’ll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We’re organized into cross‑functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Next.js for our front‑end. GitLab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day. You can check out our Engineering Rulebook to learn more.

What This Job Can Offer You

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.

Qualifications
Must have (professional experience):

Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, including building, shipping, and maintaining complex software projects.

Postgres (or similar)

CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have:

Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Nextjs

React/Vue/Angular

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development of major team‑scoped projects, participate in cross‑team initiatives.

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.

Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind.

Practicals

Team: Engineering

Location: Anywhere in the World

Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

Interview with our 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

Benefits

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

Other Information
Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. 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.

Our salary range for this full‑time position is $51,850—$116,650 USD.

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. 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.

How to apply

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. 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. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Other notes
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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