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!

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.

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)

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project.
• Postgres (or similar).
• CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar).

Nice to have

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of small issues and projects.
• Actively participate in product work in the team: suggest ideas, communicate with stakeholders, empathise with customers, and use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements.
• Provide feedback on code reviews within the team.
• Contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve issues that may occur in projects.
• Participate in non‑team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
• Suggest and participate in implementation of small and mid‑size improvements to our platform.
• Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind.

Practicals

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Compensation

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased pay in all locations. The base salary range for this role is $41,500—$93,350 USD, dependent on location, experience, and other factors.

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

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

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.

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 Employment Opportunity

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) that meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer an anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer, we aim for a workforce that reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and use this data to stay accountable.