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 to be applied across different domains
• Maintain high quality through verification loops, including tests, checks, evals, and guardrails
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and contributing to the shared codebase
• Collaborate with product teams to suggest technical improvements and solve complex business issues

Requirements

• Proven track record of shipping secure, reliable, and scalable production systems
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows
• Strong systems thinking skills: ability to define specs, break down plans, and instrument verification
• Proficiency with Postgres (or similar relational databases)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins)
• High level of 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)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Familiarity 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-first culture)
• 16 weeks of 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.