Engineering Team Leader

Remote

Completely RemoteFull TimeInformation Technology
Posted Today

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend)
  • Spend 30% of time on management and 70% on active product development
  • Lead hiring processes and onboarding for new engineers
  • Manage team dynamics and provide continuous constructive feedback
  • Responsible for direct reports' career growth and coaching
  • Redesign engineering workflows using autonomous agents as the default execution layer
  • Propose and operationalize agentic workflows (spec, plan, execute, verify)
  • Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase
  • Use verification loops to ensure results are secure, reliable, and scalable

Requirements

  • Experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people
  • Extensive experience with Backend (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming)
  • Strong engineering fundamentals with a track record of shipping production systems
  • Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows
  • Ability to think in systems and define clear specifications
  • Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
  • Solid communication and organizational skills

Benefits

  • Work from anywhere
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Flexible working hours (async culture)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Mental health support services
  • Stock options
  • 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.

Skills & tools

ElixirRubyAI

What the team is looking for

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

  1. 01Managed 2+ engineers
  2. 02Backend experience (Elixir, Phoenix, or Ruby)
  3. 03AI and automation fluency
  4. 04Systems thinking
  5. 05Strong engineering fundamentals
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