Engineering Team Leader

Remote from: APAC
Salary, yearly, USD: 169,700
Department: Product & Operations
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 10 Jun 2026
Apply before: 10 Jul 2026
Experience level: Senior
Views / Applies: 23 / 4

About company

About Remote

Helping companies hire and pay global teams effortlessly.

Human Resources
2019

Actively Hiring

AI Summary

Remote is seeking an Engineering Team Leader to manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers, spending 30% of time on management and the rest on product development. The role involves hiring, onboarding, coaching, and integrating AI/automation workflows to improve efficiency. Candidates need backend experience in Elixir, Ruby, or functional programming, and a strong focus on automation and AI. This is a fully remote position with a global team.

Role DNA

Job Complexity

Easy Hard

Pace & Pressure

Relaxed Fast-paced

Autonomy Level

Guided Full Ownership

Communication Load

Independent Highly Collaborative

AI Insight Requires managing an engineering team, deep backend expertise, and integration of AI/automation workflows, making it a challenging senior role.

Salary Analysis

AI Insight The offered minimum salary of $169,700 is competitive, aligning with the market median for Engineering Team Leaders. The market range is typically $150,000 to $250,000, so this position offers a solid base with potential for growth.

Key Skills

Engineering Management Backend Development Elixir Ruby Functional Programming AI Automation Team Leadership Hiring Onboarding Communication

Cover Letter Sample

I am excited to apply for the Engineering Team Leader position at Remote. With extensive experience in backend development and team management, I am confident in leading a small product team to deliver high-quality outcomes. My background in Elixir and functional programming aligns well with your tech stack, and I have a proven track record of incorporating AI and automation to improve efficiency. I am passionate about fostering team growth and ensuring a kind, people-first approach.

Possible Interview Questions

Can you describe your experience with managing a team of engineers and how you balance management with technical contributions?

I have managed teams of 3-5 engineers, spending about 30% of my time on management tasks like 1:1s, planning, and feedback, while remaining hands-on in coding and architecture decisions. I prioritize clear communication and empowerment to ensure both team growth and delivery.

How have you integrated AI or automation workflows into your engineering processes?

I led the adoption of agentic workflows for code review and testing, using automated agents to handle repetitive tasks and verify outcomes. This reduced manual effort and improved consistency, allowing the team to focus on complex problems.

What is your approach to giving constructive feedback to team members?

I believe in timely, specific, and balanced feedback. I focus on behaviors and outcomes, not personal traits, and always pair criticism with actionable suggestions. I also encourage a culture where feedback flows both ways.

How do you handle hiring and onboarding to ensure new engineers succeed?

I design structured interview processes that assess both technical skills and cultural fit. For onboarding, I create a clear roadmap with milestones, assign a buddy, and provide regular check-ins to address questions and adjust the pace as needed.

Describe a time you redesigned a workflow to improve team efficiency. What was the outcome?

I revamped our deployment pipeline by introducing automated testing and continuous integration, reducing deployment time by 40%. This allowed the team to release features faster with fewer errors, improving overall productivity.

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

The Position

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.

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.

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 Backend (Elixir/Phoenix or 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 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.
Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

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

Interview with recruiter
Interview with Hiring Manager
(async) Code challenge + review
Interview with team members
Bar Raiser Interview
Executive Interview
Offer and Prior employment verification check (Read more at remote.com/employment-checks)

Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$7,540—$169,700 USD

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

work from anywhere
flexible paid time off
flexible working hours (we are 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

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote’s AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

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