Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Remote, a company revolutionizing global remote work, and become a Backend Engineer. You will collaborate with a team of engineers on various projects, building tools, APIs, and integrations for our products. The ideal candidate possesses significant experience with Elixir, Postgres, and CI/CD, and is proficient in building and maintaining complex software projects. Remote offers a competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a supportive work environment. The role is fully remote, allowing for flexibility and work-life balance. We prioritize a sense of belonging and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives
• Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
• Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
• Provide feedback on code reviews
• Contribute to the shared codebase
• Debug and solve technical and business issues
• Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
• Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and 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