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Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

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Technical Requirements

ElixirPhoenixPostgresCI/CDAWSAutomationAPI Design

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.

The position

You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. 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 Nextjs for our front-end.

What this job can offer you

  • Complex and meaningful challenges.
  • Significant impact on the business.
  • Freedom to organize your work and life.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, and flexible benefits.
  • A supportive work environment that values innovation.

What you bring

Must have (professional experience):

  • 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 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives.
  • Maintain a good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides.
  • Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
  • Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
  • Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind.
  • Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end to deliver outcomes faster.
  • Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.
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