Engineering Team Leader
2026-04-17T15:22:02+00:00
Remote
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Consulting
Management, Computer & IT, Science & Engineering, Team leader
2026-04-24T17:00:00+00:00
TELECOMMUTE
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Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)
Remote opens the vast potential of the world for every person, business, and country, building a world where every person and business truly belongs. We empower companies of all sizes to pay and manage full-time and contract workers around the world. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50...
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.
Responsibilities or duties
- 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.
Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
JOB-69e2501ac13ea
Vacancy title:
Engineering Team Leader
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Management, Computer & IT, Science & Engineering, Team leader]
Jobs at:
Remote
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, April 24 2026
Duty Station:
This Job is Remote
Summary
Date Posted: Friday, April 17 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Background information about the job or company (e.g., role context, company overview)
Remote opens the vast potential of the world for every person, business, and country, building a world where every person and business truly belongs. We empower companies of all sizes to pay and manage full-time and contract workers around the world. Remote makes it easy to manage international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance in 50...
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.
Responsibilities or duties
- 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.
Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)
- 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.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 12
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
Application Link:https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/remotecom/jobs/7703260003
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