Senior Backend Engineer

R; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global employment platform is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team. The role involves building tools, APIs, and integrations while leading major projects and mentoring junior engineers. The company offers a flexible work environment, competitive salary, stock options, and generous benefits. This remote role allows for work from anywhere, granting significant autonomy over work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Stock options

Unlimited PTO

Home office budget

Mental health support

Qualifications

• Significant experience in building, shipping, and maintaining complex software projects.
• Experience with Postgres or similar database.
• Understanding of CI/CD processes with tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team-scoped projects.
• Participate in cross-team initiatives and suggest product improvements.
• Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers as needed.

Skills

Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer

Postgres

CI/CD

Functional Programming languages

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Next.js

React/Vue/Angular

Tools

GitLab

Job description

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. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) 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 organized 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 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.

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 organize 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 would like 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.
• 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
• 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

• Team: Engineering
• 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 the members of the engineering team
• Bar Raiser interview
• Executive interview
• Offer + Prior employment verification check

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are 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). 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.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to Apply

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardized 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.

Remote is an equal employment opportunity employer. We encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status, and any other under-represented group to apply.