Backend Engineer

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.

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. Git Lab 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.

• 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, 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.

• Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project
• Postgres (or similar)
• CI/CD (Git Lab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• AWS
• Next.js
• React/Vue/Angular

• Lead the development of small issues and projects
• Actively participate in product work in the team: suggest ideas, communicate with stakeholders, emphasise 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

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

The base salary range for this full-time position is between USD 41,500 to USD 93,350.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job‑related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• l…