Senior Backend Engineer (Global) — 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. 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.

The Position

You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA, organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and the exact team will be defined during the interview process. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products. The backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Next.js for the front-end. GitLab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Applications are hosted on AWS, and we deploy multiple times per day.

What You Bring (must-have)

• 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) and CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar).

Nice to Have

• Functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell.
• Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, React/Vue/Angular.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, and participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products.
• Actively participate in product work — provide feedback, suggest solutions.
• Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements; maintain a strong understanding of the team's domain.
• Provide code-review feedback, mentor and guide other engineers.
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of platform improvements; 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

• 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

Compensation

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $53,300 – $119,850 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.