Senior Backend Engineer; Elixir
Singapore
Listed on 2025-12-28
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
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. Remoters work from six continents, and all of our positions are fully remote.
WhatThis Job Can Offer You
- Complex and meaningful challenges—solving them enables people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the World.
- Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business—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 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.
- Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, including building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project.
- Postgres (or similar).
- CI/CD (Git Lab, Github, Jenkins or similar).
- Kubernetes.
- Docker.
- AWS.
- Nextjs.
- React/Vue/Angular.
- 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 problems, and use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements.
- Maintain a good understanding of the team’s domain from both 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 processes, 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.
Reporting line:
Engineering Team Leader
Team:
Engineering
Location:
Anywhere in the World
Start date:
As soon as possible
Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased compensation and equity pay across all locations. We pay above in‑location rates to avoid cheap‑labor practices and support global talent‑hiring. The base salary range for this full‑time position is between USD 51,850–116,650
. The actual base pay depends on location, skills, experience, and market demand. Salary ranges 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.
- Learning budget.
- Home office budget & IT equipment.
- Budget for local in‑person social events or co‑working spaces.
We work async at Remote, which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). 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 in PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV but are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your Linked In profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability…
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