Engineering Team Leader

Remote is a fully remote company helping global organizations navigate employment compliance. The company is looking for a Team Leader to manage a small product engineering team and lead the team through design, development, and delivery of autonomous agent‑based solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a product team of 3–5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• Spend ~30% of time on management work, while actively participating in product development.
• Engage in hiring and onboarding of new engineers.
• Serve as the spokesperson, managing team dynamics and fostering growth.
• Provide continuous feedback, coaching, and career guidance.
• Redesign engineering workflows to use autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Propose and operationalize agent‑based end‑to‑end workflows (spec → plan → execute → verify).
• Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase.
• Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Requirements

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Frontend (React, JS, ES6, Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping secure, reliable production systems.
• Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows and iterating improvements.
• Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality.
• Solid communication skills and knowledge of engineering principles and best practices.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail and a people‑first approach.
• Ability to inspire others and instill confidence; understand team dynamics.
• Committed to Remote’s values and to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Practicals

• Reports to: Engineering Manager.
• Direct reports: 2–5 Engineers.
• Location: Anywhere in the world.
• Start date: As soon as possible.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible working hours (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.

EEO Statement

We encourage applicants from all ethnic groups, genders, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, disability status, and any other under‑represented group to apply, and we provide accommodations for anyone who needs one during interviews or beyond.