Engineering Team Leader (Backend)

TN Germany; Berlin; Remote; USD 71,000 - 162,000; Full time

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Remote

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Berlin, Germany

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Posted:

13.05.2025

Expiry Date:

27.06.2025

Job Description:

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

The Position

You'll be joining 250+ engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific product areas. Regardless of the specific team you will be joining, you will be working on building features, 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 Nextjs for our frontend. Gitlab is used as a version control tool and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day.

As Engineering Team Leader at Remote, we expect you to spend around 50% of your time hands-on coding, and 50% leading the team.

What this job can offer you

• Leading a distributed team of backend and frontend engineers. You can trust them to take ownership of their daily tasks and challenges as you work closely with the Product Manager and stakeholders on the product roadmap and defining the problems to solve.
• 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 organize your work and life; you are not bound to daily standups or other ceremonies. We expect you to have regular 1:1s with your team members, but you can organize them around your schedule.
• A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.
• Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture. Read more about our culture.
• Competitive salary, stock options, a generous learning budget, and a set of other perks and benefits.

What you bring

• Proven experience leading a team of engineers (i.e., 1:1s, career progression, salary reviews, etc.)
• Good understanding of team dynamics, coaching, and mentoring
• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer, including building, shipping, and maintaining complex software products
• Solid knowledge and experience in Elixir and Postgres (or similar technologies)
• Experience dealing with ambiguity, working with stakeholders to translate abstract concepts into working software
• Strong ability to work independently and self-guided
• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Curiosity and willingness to learn and develop

Practicals

• You'll report to: Engineering Manager
• Direct reports: 2-5 Engineers
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's goal is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations we operate. We pay above in-location rates to support global talent-hiring and local wealth creation in developing countries. Our salary bands consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global strategy.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $71,700 - $161,250. The actual pay depends on factors like location, skills, experience, and market conditions. The range may be updated.

Application process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. (async) Code challenge
4. (async) Code challenge review
5. Interview with team members
6. Executive interview
7. More info at our careers page

Benefits

Our benefits include:

• Work from anywhere
• Unlimited personal time off (minimum 4 weeks)
• Quarterly company-wide day off for self-care
• Flexible working hours
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local social events or co-working spaces

How you'll plan your day (and life)

We work asynchronously, allowing you to plan your schedule around your life. You are encouraged to take ownership, be proactive, and prioritize your life-work balance.