Senior Backend Engineer

Remote
United, PA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 11/25/2021 CLOSED ON 12/11/2021

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About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance (learn more about how it works). We're backed by A investors and our team is world-class, literally and figuratively, as we're all scattered around the world.

Please check out our public handbook to learn more about our culture. We encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age and abilities to apply. You can also check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

** All of our Positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us! **

How we work

Remote is fully remote (ah!) and we love Working Async. This means you get to do your own schedule no matter the timezone. The Remote Engineering team uses a simple approach to productivity and task management and you can read more about it in The Remote Flow.

The team you'll be joining: 70 engineers, spanning across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into product teams composed with engineers, designers, product managers, operations and finance, each dedicated to achieving the same goals in a specific domain.

Requirements

For this role you won't need Elixir experience but you will be working with Elixir.
One month training and ongoing learning on the job will be provided.

Must have (professional experience):

  • 4 years (minimum) working as a Backend Engineer
  • Postgres (or similar)
  • Redis (Similar)
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Docker

Nice to have

  • Elixir/Phoenix
  • Kubernetes
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS
  • Nextjs
  • React/Vue/Angular

Key responsibilities 

  • Implementing, maintaining and improving our software platforms
  • Participating in other projects, tasks and initiatives with the rest of the engineering team.

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair unbiased compensation and fair pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labour practices and therefore pay a minimum annual salary of USD 40,000 per year, in all locations throughout the world. Actual compensation may vary based upon geographical location, experience, and/or skill level. However, it will never be below our minimum global compensation mentioned.

Benefits

  • You can learn more about the benefits we're offering to all internal employees at Remote by visiting our public Benefits & Perks Handbook page.

Hiring Process

  1. (async) Application is reviewed by our VP of Engineering
  2. Interview with our recruiter
  3. Interview with an Engineering Manager or VP of Engineering
  4. (async) code exercise. You will be adding functionality to an existing Elixir application (you're not expected to spend more than 4 - 6 hours)
  5. Interview with the team (without any manager in the call so you can really get to know the people and ask all you want to ask)
  6. (async) Offer

How to apply

Please fill out the form below. Thank you!

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