Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)
Remote
Remote
Europe
senior
May 20, 2026
$150-500k
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Job Description
About Remote
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.
With Innovation as one of the core values we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
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.
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 organised 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 Nextjs for our front-end.
Gitlab is used as a version control tool issue tracker 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 also check out this Keynote to learn how we evolved Remote's architecture and organisation to support a fast pace.
We explore domain boundaries and dependency management alongside worker separation.
You will also hear about ownership driven observability.
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 flexible paid time off 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.
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 (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
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Nextjs
- React/Vue/Angular
Key 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.
Practicals
- Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
- 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 with VP of Engineering
- Offer and Prior employment verification check
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.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context.
At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location and our job titles may span more than one career level.
The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location transferable or job-related skills work experience relevant training business needs and market demands.
The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness.
Therefore all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
As a global company each country works differently but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- 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
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
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.
If that sounds like something you want apply now!
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.
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.
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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