Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

About the company

This role is with a globally distributed company that helps organizations hire, pay, and manage international teams while staying compliant across borders. The team works asynchronously, is spread across multiple continents, and operates fully remote. Innovation is a core value, and automation plus AI capability are expected as part of the work.

The culture is designed for people who are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, with an emphasis on bringing diverse backgrounds and perspectives into the product and the team.

The role

You will join an engineering group made up of frontend, backend, SRE, and QA specialists working in cross-functional product teams. The exact team will be decided during the interview process based on business priorities and your interests. In this role, you will help build internal tools, APIs, and integrations for one of the company’s products.

The backend stack includes Elixir, Phoenix, and Postgres. The frontend uses React and Next.js. GitLab serves as the source control, issue tracking, and CI/CD platform, while AWS hosts the applications. Deployments are fully automated through CI and happen several times each day.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of major projects within your team and contribute to cross-team initiatives for HR and Payroll products.
• Shape product direction by sharing technical input, proposing solutions, and suggesting product improvements.
• Develop a strong understanding of the team’s business domain from both the product and engineering perspectives.
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to other engineers.
• Work on the shared codebase and contribute to ongoing platform development.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical as well as business-related issues.
• Participate in support rotations, hiring activities, RFC discussions, and other engineering-wide efforts.
• Mentor teammates and support the growth of other engineers.
• Explore and deliver platform improvements that increase quality, reliability, and performance.
• Design interfaces with attention to performance, accessibility, and API quality.
• Help reshape engineering delivery so autonomous agents become a standard execution layer.
• Design and roll out end-to-end agentic workflows covering specification, planning, execution, and verification.
• Create reusable agentic workflows and primitives that can be applied across multiple domains.
• Use checks, tests, evaluations, and guardrails to confirm outputs are accurate, secure, dependable, and scalable.

What we're looking for

• Solid engineering fundamentals and a history of delivering production systems that are secure, reliable, and able to scale.
• Hands-on experience with agentic or automation workflows, or similar systems, and improving them through iteration.
• Strong systems thinking, including the ability to write clear specs, break work into plans, define verification, and improve quality through feedback loops.
• Practical experience with Postgres or a comparable database.
• Experience using CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or similar systems.
• Comfort working with automation and AI, along with strong AI fluency.
• Helpful extra experience with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Next.js, and modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular.

What the company offers

• Interesting, high-impact problems with global reach.
• The chance to influence the business significantly while it is still in an early growth phase.
• Substantial freedom in how you organize your work and personal schedule.
• Competitive pay, stock options, flexible paid time off, and additional benefits.
• A supportive environment that encourages challenge, experimentation, and innovation.
• Access to an experienced engineering team that can help you grow professionally.
• Work-from-anywhere flexibility.
• Flexible working hours in an async setup.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Learning budget.
• Home office budget and IT equipment.
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

Working style

The company operates asynchronously, so you can plan your day around your life rather than around recurring meetings. You are expected to take ownership, act proactively, and choose action when decisions are unclear. Work-life balance is emphasized, and you are encouraged to put yourself and your family first.

Practicals

• Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible

Interview process

• Conversation with a recruiter
• Interview with an engineering leader
• Async coding exercise followed by a review
• Interview with engineering team members
• Bar raiser interview
• Executive interview with the VP of Engineering
• Offer and prior employment verification check

Compensation and rewards

This is a full-time role with an annual base salary range of USD 53,300 to USD 119,850. The pay band varies by role, level, and location, and the final offer will depend on factors such as geographic location, transferable skills, job-related experience, training, business needs, and market conditions. The compensation range may change over time.

The company uses geo-based compensation ranges to account for local market differences and aims to maintain pay equity across its global workforce. Internal moves are reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team.

How to apply

Applicants should submit the application form along with a CV in PDF format. Applications and CVs must be written in English. If an updated CV is not available, a LinkedIn profile may be included instead.

Equal opportunity and inclusion

The organization welcomes applications from people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, disability statuses, and other under-represented groups. It has employee resource groups for Women, Disability, Queer, and Minorities in Tech, and candidates may request accommodations during and after the interview process. Applicants may also be asked to share pronouns during interviews and may optionally complete an anonymous demographic questionnaire.

AI expectations

The company views AI as a useful tool while still valuing human creativity and authenticity. Candidates are expected to balance innovation with real expertise and experience.

Additional information

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.