Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Town of Belgium

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 core values at heart and a future‑focused culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. All positions are fully remote.

Overview

You’ll join a cross‑functional team of engineers focused 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 on the front end. Git Lab handles version control, CI/CD, and deployments on AWS.

What This Job Can Offer You

• Complex and meaningful challenges that enable people and businesses to operate in any country.
• Significant impact on the business at an early stage of the company.
• Freedom to organize your work and life; no daily stand‑ups or rigid ceremonies.
• Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a set of perks.
• A supportive environment that encourages innovation.
• Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate professional growth.

Qualifications Must have (professional experience)

• Significant experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, building, shipping, and maintaining complex projects.
• Proficiency with Postgres (or similar).
• Experience in CI/CD using Git Lab, Git Hub, Jenkins, or similar.

Nice to have

• Experience with functional programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Experience with Docker.
• AWS expertise.
• Next.js and React/Vue/Angular.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of major team‑scoped projects and participate in cross‑team initiatives.
• Actively participate in product work: provide feedback, suggest solutions, and propose product improvements.
• Maintain expertise in the team’s domain from both product and engineering perspectives.
• Provide feedback on code reviews and contribute to the shared codebase.
• Debug and solve technical and business issues.
• Participate in non‑team activities such as support rotations, hiring, RFC discussions, etc.
• Mentor and guide other engineers.
• Investigate, propose, and implement platform improvements.
• 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 members of the engineering team
• Bar Raiser interview
• Executive interview
• Offer + Prior employment verification check

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (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 coworking spaces

How You’ll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work async, so you can plan your schedule around your life and not around meetings. You’ll be empowered to take ownership, act decisively, and prioritize your family and well‑being.

How To Apply

• Fill out the application form and upload your CV in PDF format.
• Submit your CV in English.
• If you don’t have an up‑to‑date CV, you may link to your Linked In profile.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Remote encourages applicants from all ethnic groups, genders, sexualities, ages, abilities, disability status, and other under‑represented groups. We ask for any accommodation requests during interviews and voluntarily ask for pronouns. We may also ask for demographic data for accountability. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Human Resources Services

Location

Remote (Anywhere)

Salary

$51,850 — $116,650 USD (annual range)

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