Engineering Team Leader

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We enable businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. All positions are fully remote.

The Position

A Team Leader is responsible for all the work of a team and serves as the spokesperson for every member. They manage team dynamics and help others become their best selves while guiding the team toward optimized execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a small product team of 3‑5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• Spending 30% of the time on management work; participating in product development during the remainder.
• Involved in hiring and onboarding processes for the team.
• Acting as the spokesperson to manage team dynamics and bring out the best in team members.
• Providing continuous and constructive feedback and coaching.
• Helping the team grow and managing each direct report’s career development.
• Redesigning engineering delivery using autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Proposing and operationalizing agentic workflows end‑to‑end (spec, plan, execute, verify).
• Building reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase across domains.
• Using verification loops (tests, checks, evaluators, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Requirements

• Managed an engineering team of at least two people.
• Extensive experience with backend development using Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming.
• Commitment to promoting Remote's values within the team and organization.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping secure, reliable, scalable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows and improving them through iteration.
• Ability to think in systems: define specs, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality.
• Solid communication skills.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people‑first approach.
• Ability to inspire others and instil confidence.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality and inclusion.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

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

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (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

Compensation

Annual salary range for this full‑time position: $75,450 – $169,700 USD.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Remote is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, identities, and abilities, and we provide reasonable accommodations during the interview process.