Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

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 core values are at heart of a future-focused work culture; all of our positions are fully remote.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Human Resources Services

What This Job Can Offer You

• Complex and meaningful challenges – solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business – we are still very early in our journey, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
• A lot of freedom to organize your work and life – you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
• Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits.
• A supportive and kind work environment where you would like to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
• Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

Must have (professional experience)

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
• Postgres (or similar)
• CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Nice to have

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Nextjs
• React/Vue/Angular

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team‑scoped projects, participate in cross‑team initiatives
• Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
• Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides
• Provide feedback on code reviews
• Contribute to the shared codebase
• Debug and solve technical and business issues
• Participate in non‑team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers
• Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform
• Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind

Practicals

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap‑labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in‑location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent‑hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

The base salary range for this full‑time position is between USD 51,850 to USD 116,650. The salary range is determined by role, level and location and may be subject to change.

Application process

• Interview with our recruiter
• Interview with an Engineering Leader
• Code exercise and review (async)
• Interview with members of the engineering team
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Executive Interview with VP of Engineering
• Offer and prior employment verification check

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (asynchronous)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work asynchronously at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life‑work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

How To Apply

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
• If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have four ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines, see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.