Engineering Team Leader

Responsibilities

• Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers, overseeing team dynamics and career growth.
• Spend approximately 30% of your time on management and 70% actively participating in product development.
• Lead the redesign of engineering workflows by implementing autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize end-to-end agentic workflows (spec, plan, execute, verify) to accelerate delivery.
• Build reusable agentic primitives and workflows within the codebase for cross-domain application.
• Implement verification loops, including tests, checks, and guardrails, to ensure scalable and secure results.
• Drive hiring and onboarding processes for your team and support peer recruitment efforts.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive backend experience with Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or other functional programming languages.
• 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 a demonstrated ability to use automation and AI capabilities.
• Ability to think in systems: defining clear specs, breaking down plans, and instrumenting verification.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with a people-first approach to leadership.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the world.
• Flexible paid time off and flexible working hours (async-first culture).
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Learning budget and home office/IT equipment budget.
• 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 from across the globe, driven by a culture of innovation and a commitment to building the best-in-class HR platform.