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Staff Backend Engineer

Remote
Full-time
Posted: 4 months ago

You'll be joining a team of 200 engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific areas. Each team is working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.

As a staff engineer you will be part of the leadership team in one specific product area. You can read more about working as a Staff Engineer at Remote here.

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.

What this job can offer you

  • Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
  • Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
  • Pragmatic and product-focused Engineering culture - read more about our practices and work ethic here.
  • A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
  • Competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO and a set of perks and benefits.
  • A supportive and kind work environment where you can grow and challenge yourself to do your best work.

What you bring

  • Significant experience as a Staff Backend Engineer, which includes building and maintaining complex software, scaling large codebases, software systems and engineering teams
  • Solid knowledge and experience in Elixir and Postgres (or similar database)
  • Experience in scaling a software system to a large number of contributors and teams
  • Experience of mentoring and helping people develop in their careers

Practicals

  • You'll report to: Engineering Manager or Engineering Director
  • Location: Anywhere in the World
  • Start date: As soon as possible
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