Senior Backend Engineer

Remote; Remote; CAD 71,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

A global tech company is searching for a Senior Backend Engineer to tackle complex software challenges and develop APIs in a fully remote setting. This role requires significant backend experience, knowledge of CI/CD practices, and a proactive approach to product development. Join a diverse team where your contributions can significantly impact the company's growth and operations globally. Competitive salary and benefits await for the right candidate.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Stock options

Health benefits

Budget for local in-person social events

Qualifications

• Must have significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitLab or Jenkins is required.
• Functional programming knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects.
• Actively participate in product improvements.
• Maintain understanding of team’s domain from product and engineering sides.
• Provide feedback on code reviews.
• Mentor other engineers.

Skills

Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, including building, shipping, and maintaining complex software projects.

CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins or similar)

Experience with Functional Programming languages (Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell)

Docker

AWS

Next.js

React/Vue/Angular

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Job description

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. There are Remoters working from 6 different continents, and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

The position

You’ll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We’re organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Next.js for our front‑end. GitLab is the version control tool and CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day.

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 as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
• A lot of freedom to organise your work and life – you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
• A supportive and kind work environment where we want you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation.
• Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.

What you bring

Must have (professional experience):

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

Nice to have:

• Experience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.
• 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

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

Application process

• Interview with our Recruiter
• Interview with an Engineering Leader
• (async) Code exercise and review
• Interview with members of the engineering team

Benefits & Perks

• Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces.
• Competitive salary ranging from $51,850 – $116,650 USD depending on role, level and location.
• Unlimited PTO, stock options, health benefits, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & 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. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

Remote is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.