Engineering Team Leader

Key Responsibilities

• Managing a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• Spending 30% of the time on management work and the remainder actively participating in product development within the team.
• Participating in hiring processes and leading the onboarding process for new engineers.
• Managing team dynamics, bringing out the best in team members, and providing continuous and constructive feedback.
• Helping the team grow continuously and being responsible for each direct report's career growth, guidance, and coaching.
• Redesigning how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer.
• Proposing and operationalizing agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster.
• Building reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase for repeated cross-domain application.
• Using 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 Backend development (Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming).
• 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 and organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
• Being able to inspire others and instill confidence.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality, and inclusion.
• Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Practicals

• Reports to: Engineering Manager
• Direct reports: 2-5 Engineers
• Team: Engineering
• Location: Anywhere in the world (with local presence in Nairobi)
• Start date: As soon as possible