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. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work from anywhere in the world. Remote is committed to diversity, equality, and inclusion, and encourages applications from all backgrounds. The application process involves several interviews and a code challenge.

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