Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for building tools, APIs, and integrations for Remote's products while working with a team of engineers across various domains.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products
- Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements
- 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
- Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind
- Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer
- Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster
- Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains
- Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable
Skills
- Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable
- Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and improving them through iteration
- Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality
- Postgres (or similar)
- CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
- Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Nextjs
- 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
Company Overview
Remote is an employment, payroll, and HR platform for modern, distributed businesses. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://remote.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Remote has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 2 in 2024, 2 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.