Engineering Team Leader (Anywhere in the World) — Agentic Workflows

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. Our team works asynchronously around the world, and all 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.

The Position

A Team Leader is responsible for all the work of a team and the spokesperson for everyone in it. They manage team dynamics, bring out the best in everyone, and gear the team toward optimised execution.

Key responsibilities

• Manage a small product team of 3–5 engineers (backend and frontend). 30% of the time spent doing management work; outside of that, actively participate in product development on the team.
• Be involved in hiring for the team and onboarding new engineers; manage team dynamics and help individual ICs grow.
• Give continuous, constructive feedback. Help the team improve as a group; be responsible for each direct report's career.
• 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.

Requirements

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Backend (Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby or functional programming).
• Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organisation.
• 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.
• Solid communication and organizational skills, with a kind, people-first approach.

Practicals

• Reports to: Engineering Manager
• Direct reports: 2–5 Engineers
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible

Compensation

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $73,150 – $164,600 USD. Remote uses geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of a global compensation strategy. Benefits include flexible PTO, async working hours, 16 weeks paid parental leave, stock options, learning budget, home-office + IT equipment budget, and a co-working stipend.