Engineering Team Leader

Remote

Completely RemoteFull TimeEngineering & Architecture
Posted Today

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers, balancing management duties with active product development.
  • Act as the team spokesperson, managing dynamics and providing continuous coaching and career guidance.
  • Lead hiring and onboarding processes for new engineering talent.
  • Redesign engineering workflows by implementing autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
  • Propose and operationalize end-to-end agentic workflows (spec, plan, execute, verify).
  • Build reusable agentic primitives and verification loops to ensure scalable and reliable results.

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people.
  • Extensive backend experience with Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming.
  • Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals with a track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems.
  • High level of AI fluency and strong automation capabilities.
  • Ability to think in systems, define clear specifications, and instrument verification loops.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills with a people-first approach.

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere in the world.
  • Flexible paid time off and flexible working hours (async culture).
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Stock options and a dedicated learning budget.
  • Home office budget and IT equipment.
  • Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

About the Company

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. Our team works asynchronously across 6 different continents to build a best-in-class HR platform.

Skills & tools

ElixirRubyAI

What the team is looking for

Use this list as a quick fit check before you apply.

  1. 01managed engineering team of 2+
  2. 02backend experience Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby
  3. 03functional programming knowledge
  4. 04agentic/automation workflow experience
  5. 05strong engineering fundamentals
  6. 06AI fluency