Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer – Remote

About Remote

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. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems asynchronously, around the world. All positions are fully remote.

What This Job Can Offer You

• Complex and meaningful challenges – solving them enables people and businesses to operate in any country.
• Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business – each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
• A lot of freedom to organize your work and life – no daily standups or recurring meetings required.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
• A supportive and kind work environment where we encourage challenging dogmas and pursuing innovation.
• Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

Must have (professional experience)

• Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, including building, shipping, and maintaining complex software projects.
• Postgres (or similar).
• CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar).

Nice to have

• Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.
• Kubernetes.
• Docker.
• AWS.
• Next.js.
• React/Vue/Angular.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team‑scoped projects and participate in cross‑team initiatives.
• Actively participate in product work: provide feedback, suggest solutions, and use technical insights to improve products.
• Maintain a good understanding of the team’s domain from product and engineering perspectives.
• 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 guide other engineers.
• Investigate, propose, and implement improvements to our platform.
• Design and implement APIs with performance, scalability, and maintainability in mind.

Practicals

• Team: Engineering.
• Location: Anywhere in the World.
• Start date: As soon as possible.

Application Process

1. Interview with our Recruiter.
2. Interview with an Engineering Leader.
3. Async code exercise and review.
4. Interview with members of the engineering team.
5. Bar Raiser interview.
6. Executive interview.
7. Offer + Prior employment verification check.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours (async).
• 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 async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). 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

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format.
2. We ask that you submit your application and CV in English.
3. If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV, you can add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Equal Employment Opportunity & Inclusive Culture

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including but not limited to gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status, and under‑represented groups. We ask & encourage any applicant who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily share your pronouns at interview stage and offer an anonymous demographic questionnaire. As an equal employment opportunity employer, we strive for workforce diversity and use data to stay accountable. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.