Backend Engineer

Remote; Remote; ZAR 682 000 - 1 549 000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud-based technology company is looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join its remote team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with Elixir, capable of building and maintaining complex software projects. Responsibilities include leading small-scale developments, contributing to a collaborative codebase, and enhancing product features. Offering a flexible work schedule, competitive salary, and various perks, this position allows you to make a meaningful impact in shaping the company's future.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir.
• Experience in building, shipping, and maintaining software projects.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitLab, GitHub, or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of small issues and projects.
• Suggest ideas and communicate with stakeholders.
• Contribute to the shared codebase.

Skills

Elixir

Postgres

CI / CD

Tools

GitLab

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Next.js

React

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.

All of our positions are fully remote.

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 used as a version control tool, issue tracker 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 organise your work and life — you are not bound to daily stand‑ups, 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 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 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
• Next.js
• React / Vue / Angular

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of small issues and projects
• Actively participate in product work in the team: suggest ideas, communicate with stakeholders, empathise with customers.
• Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements.
• Provide feedback on code reviews within the team
• Contribute to the shared codebase
• Debug and solve issues that may occur in projects
• Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
• Suggest and participate in implementation of small and mid-size 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

Base salary range for this full-time position is between USD 41, – USD 93,.

Salary is adjusted for location, skill level and market; rates reflect a global compensation strategy that ensures fair, unbiased pay above local in‑location rates.

Application process

• Interview with our recruiter
• Interview with an Engineering Leader
• (async) Code exercise and review
• 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 (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).

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 with a PDF format.

We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use.

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 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.

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 check see here.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology