Engineering Team Leader

Summary

Join Remote and lead a small product team of 3-5 engineers, balancing management responsibilities with active participation in product development. As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for hiring, onboarding, and mentoring your team, fostering a positive and productive work environment. You will provide continuous feedback, guide career growth, and ensure the team's optimized execution. Remote offers a fully remote position with competitive compensation and benefits, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The ideal candidate possesses extensive backend (Elixir/Phoenix) experience and a proven track record of managing engineering teams. Remote values diversity, equality, and inclusion, and encourages applications from all backgrounds.

Requirements

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people
• Extensive experience with Backend (Elixir/Phoenix)
• Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organisation
• 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
• Being able to inspire others and instill confidence
• Good understand of team dynamics
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality and inclusion

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 participates in product development in their team
• Be involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers
• In addition to being involved in hiring, also being responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers
• By being the spokesperson for everyone in their team they are expected to manage the team dynamics and bring out the best in them
• Giving continuous and constructive feedback on all the things
• Helps the team to grow continuously as a group and is responsible for each direct report’s career
• Provide guidance and coaching to the team

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