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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) - **Company:** Remote - **Location:** ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Github, PostgreSQL, Reliability Engineering, Next.js, ReactJS, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Gitlab, Vue.js, AngularJS, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Software Version Control, Docker, Elixir, Jenkins - **Published:** May 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4a3dffe9d008867a ## About the Role Do you have experience in Vue.js?, * 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 have * Kubernetes * Docker * AWS * Nextjs * React/Vue/Angular ## Description You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals. This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences. Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products. Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day. You can also check out this Keynote to learn how we evolved Remote's architecture and organisation to support a fast pace. We explore domain boundaries and dependency management alongside worker separation. You will also hear about ownership driven observability., * 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 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. ## Related Videos - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Bringing digital education to refugee and host communities in remote regions of Africa](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/644-bringing-digital-education-to-refugee-and-host-communities-in-remote-regions-of-africa) - [Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/775-build-and-deploy-a-fullstack-app-with-open-source-tooling) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 131 - AI'm not sure about OSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/472-dev-digest-131-ai-m-not-sure-about-oss) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)