Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects and participate in cross-team initiatives for HR and Payroll products
• Design, propose, and operationalize end-to-end agentic workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify)
• Redesign engineering workflows to use autonomous agents as the default execution layer
• Build reusable agentic primitives and workflows within the codebase
• Maintain high quality through verification loops, including tests, checks, evals, and guardrails
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and RFC discussions
• Debug and solve complex technical and business issues within a distributed system

Requirements

• Proven track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to think in complex systems
• Proficiency with Postgres (or similar relational databases)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.)
• Demonstrated AI fluency and strong automation capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks like React, Next.js, Vue, or Angular

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the world
• Flexible paid time off and flexible working hours (async culture)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Mental health support services and learning budget
• Home office budget and IT equipment

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 six continents to build a best-in-class HR and payroll platform.