About RemoteRemote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating general employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future‑focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. We are fully remote and have team members across six continents.The positionYou’ll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE, and QA. We are organised into cross‑functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams;

the exact team will be defined during the interview process based on business needs and your preferences. You will be working on building tools, APIs, and integrations for one of our products.Key ResponsibilitiesLead 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 a good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides.Provide feedback on code reviews and 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.What you bringMust have (professional experience)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.Nice to haveExperience with Functional Programming languages such as Elixir, Erlang, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, etc.KubernetesDockerAWSNextjsReact/Vue/AngularCompensation & BenefitsAnnual salary range for this full‑time position is $53,300 – $119,850 USD.Benefits include competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, learning budget, home office budget, mental health support services, parental leave, flexible paid time off, flexible working hours (async), and local social events or co‑working spaces (if applicable).Diversity & InclusionWe encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, and we prioritize a sense of belonging.Work styleWe work async, empowering you to plan your schedule around your life. Your life‑work balance is important, and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Backend Engineer - $53,300 - $119,850 A Year - Remote (Madrid)
🏢 Remote
📍 Madrid