A Team Leader is responsible for all the work of a team and the spokesperson for everyone in it. They are expected to manage the team dynamics and always bring the best in everyone. A team leader is not expected to be the best in a team but rather help others become the best version there is and gear the team towards optimised execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• 30% of the time spent doing management work. Outside of that actively participates in product development in the their team.
• Being involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers.
• In addition to being involved in hiring, also being responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers.
• By being the spokesperson for everyone in their team they are expected to manage the team dynamics and bring out the best in them.
• Giving continuous and constructive feedback on all the things.
• Helping the team to grow continuously as a group and is responsible for each direct report’s career.
• Providing guidance and coaching to the team.
• 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

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Frontend (React, JS, ES6 and Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).
• Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organisation.
• 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.
• Solid communication skills.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
• Being able to inspire others and instill confidence.
• Good understand of team dynamics.
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality and inclusion.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Engineering Manager
• Direct reports: 2-5 Engineers
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

Roughly 6 hours across 6 weeks

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. (async) Code challenge + review
4. Interview with team members
5. Bar Raiser Interview
6. Executive Interview
7. Offer and Prior employment verification check

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy and salary information are provided in the posting. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $7,540—$169,700 USD.