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Senior Backend Engineer
Location
United States + 144 moreAll locations: United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic Of, Bolivia, Plurinational State Of, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Estonia, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Moldova, Republic Of, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Finland, Malta, Denmark, Lithuania, Croatia, Spain, Austria, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Iceland, Luxembourg, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Slovenia, Albania, Cyprus, Latvia, Monaco, South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte D'ivoire, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, United Republic Of, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Georgia, Turkey, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Yemen
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Role Description
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 Nextjs 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.
Qualifications
- Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project.
- Experience with Postgres (or similar).
- Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar).
Requirements
- Nice to have: Kubernetes.
- Nice to have: Docker.
- Nice to have: AWS.
- Nice to have: Nextjs.
- Nice to have: 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.
- 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
- Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader.
- Team: Engineering.
- Location: Anywhere in the World.
- Start date: As soon as possible.
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 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 you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
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 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.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Job Requirements
- Significant experience as a Backend Engineer working with Elixir, which includes building, shipping and maintaining a complicated software project.
- Experience with Postgres (or similar).
- Experience with CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar).
- Nice to have: Kubernetes.
- Nice to have: Docker.
- Nice to have: AWS.
- Nice to have: Nextjs.
- Nice to have: React/Vue/Angular.
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 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 you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
- 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 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.
- At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.
- Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
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