Engineering Team Leader

About the company

This organization helps businesses handle international hiring, payroll, and workforce management in a compliant way. Its teams work asynchronously across multiple continents, and every role is remote-first. Innovation is a core value, and automation plus AI capabilities are expected in every role.

The company encourages people to bring their skills, experiences, and culture to help shape a leading HR platform. It looks for candidates who are energetic, curious, driven, and ambitious.

Role overview

The Engineering Team Leader is accountable for the work output of a small engineering group and acts as the main point of contact for that team. The role focuses on guiding team health, improving execution, and helping others perform at their best rather than trying to be the strongest individual contributor on the team.

This position also includes hands-on product development work, with management taking about 30% of the time. A major part of the role is to redesign how engineering work is delivered by using autonomous agents as the default execution layer, building reusable workflows, and introducing verification loops to keep outcomes correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a small product engineering team of 3 to 5 engineers across backend and frontend work.
• Spend around 30% of the role on people management while staying active in product development for the rest of the time.
• Take part in hiring for the team and, when needed, support hiring efforts for other teams as well.
• Own onboarding for new engineers joining the team.
• Represent the team, strengthen collaboration, and help create a positive and productive team environment.
• Give regular, specific, and constructive feedback.
• Support the continued growth of each direct report and take responsibility for their career development.
• Coach team members and provide guidance to help them succeed.
• Rework engineering delivery so autonomous agents are used as the standard execution layer.
• Design and roll out agentic workflows from end to end, including spec, planning, execution, and verification.
• Create reusable agentic patterns and primitives in the codebase so they can be applied across multiple domains.
• Apply verification mechanisms such as tests, checks, evaluations, and guardrails to keep output accurate and dependable.

Requirements

• Prior experience leading an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Strong background in backend development, especially with Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby, or functional programming.
• Clear commitment to living the company’s values within the team and across the wider organization.
• Deep engineering fundamentals and a history of delivering production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.
• Hands-on experience building or adopting automation or agentic workflows, or comparable systems, and improving them over time.
• Ability to reason in systems, write clear specifications, break work into plans, set up verification, and close quality gaps.
• Strong communication skills.
• Good grasp of engineering principles and best practices.
• Excellent organization and attention to detail.
• A process-minded approach that is efficient and people-first.
• Ability to inspire confidence and motivate others.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Intentional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Strong familiarity with automation and AI, with confidence using AI tools and concepts.

Practicals

You will report to the Engineering Manager and will lead 2 to 5 direct reports on the Engineering team. The job can be done from anywhere in the world, and the expected start is as soon as possible.

Application process

The hiring process is expected to take roughly 6 hours spread across 6 weeks and includes the following stages:

• Conversation with a recruiter
• Conversation with the hiring manager
• Asynchronous coding challenge and review
• Interview with team members
• Bar raiser interview
• Executive interview
• Offer stage and prior employment verification

Compensation and benefits

The annual base salary for this full-time position is USD 75,450 to USD 169,700. Pay is determined by role level, location, transferable skills, experience, training, business needs, and market conditions, and the range may change. The company uses geographic pay ranges and may review compensation changes for internal moves on a case-by-case basis.

Benefits vary by country, but common perks include remote work from anywhere, flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, mental health support, stock options, a learning budget, home office budget and IT equipment, plus a budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

Work style

The company works asynchronously, so schedules can be planned around life rather than meetings. Team members are expected to take ownership, act proactively, and choose action when uncertain. Work-life balance is valued, and employees are encouraged to prioritize themselves and their families.

How to apply

Applicants are asked to submit the form along with a PDF version of their CV. Applications and CVs should be in English. If an updated CV is not available, a LinkedIn profile can be shared instead.

Equal opportunity and inclusion

The company welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and identities, including under-represented groups, and places a strong emphasis on belonging. It has employee resource groups for Women, Disability, Queer, and Minorities in Tech, and candidates can request accommodations during the hiring process. Pronouns may be shared at interview stage, and there is an optional anonymous demographic questionnaire. The organization also states that it values AI as a tool while still prioritizing human creativity and authenticity.

Additional notes

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.