Senior Backend Engineer, Elixir

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1 - 10 employees

B2B • Recruitment • SaaS

Referral Jobs (askreferral. io) is a professional networking platform designed to facilitate job searches and recruitment through referrals. The platform connects job seekers with referrers, recruiters, and alumni networks to streamline the hiring process and enhance job visibility. With features such as AI-based candidate search tools, automated lead generation, and comprehensive interview preparation resources, Referral Jobs aims to help candidates get hired faster and assist recruiters in finding the best talent for their organizations. Trusted by thousands of companies, it offers a community-driven approach to job referrals and recruitment management.

📋 Description

• Lead 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 good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides. • Provide feedback on code reviews. • 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 demind. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable. • Practical experience deg 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).

🏖️ Benefits

• flexible working hours (we are async) • home office budget & IT equipment • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces