Engineering Team Leader

Responsibilities

• Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers, balancing management duties with active participation in product development.
• Act as the spokesperson for the team, managing dynamics and providing continuous coaching and career guidance.
• Lead hiring and onboarding processes for new engineers within the team.
• Redesign 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 implement verification loops (tests, evals, guardrails) to ensure scalable and secure results.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive backend experience, specifically 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, including defining clear specs and instrumenting verification.
• 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 of 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. 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.