The Role

Podium is looking for a talented AI Engineer where your primary mandate is twofold: rebuild and modernise our lead funnel using AI-first architecture, and design and deploy a suite of internal AI agents that eliminate repetitive, manual work for our AEs and SDRs — giving them more time to sell.

If you thrive in fast-paced, highly iterative environments, enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, and want to see your work drive immediate business impact, this role is for you!

What you will be doing

• Build and scale the AI Agent platform — enabling high-volume, real-time conversational workflows that deliver accuracy and low latency at scale.
• Design and implement APIs, services, and infrastructure that power multi-turn, cross-channel customer interactions.
• Own the full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability.
• Prototype rapidly, iterate with live interaction data, and continuously improve system performance and user experience.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and operational best practices to ensure reliability in production, focusing on agent accuracy and latency.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI/ML scientists to deliver end-to-end features that power critical business outcomes.

What you should have

• 5-8+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Python, or Elixir.
• 1+ years of professional experience deploying and maintaining AI agents in production environments that interact with tools, APIs, or real-world workflows.
• Proven success designing and maintaining distributed or high-throughput systems.
• Strong problem-solving ability and comfort navigating ambiguity in large-scale systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams.
• A willingness to work across the entire stack—from infrastructure to APIs to user-facing components—wherever the problem needs solving.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

What we hope you have

• 1+ years of professional experience deploying and maintaining AI agents in production environments that interact with tools, APIs, or real-world workflows.
• Practical experience designing and implementing evaluations for LLM behavior — including accuracy, safety, reliability, and cost monitoring.
• Strong understanding of prompt design, context engineering, and guardrail strategies for dependable, interpretable agent behavior.
• Experience with modern agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen, including multi-step reasoning, memory, and orchestration patterns.
• Hands-on experience with fine-tuning and data curation for improving model performance.

Why you’ll love working here: 

• Podium is the best place to work to:
• Join the leaders in AI agents
• Unlock career-defining growth
• Build with world-class talent
• Make a real impact on local business

Benefits:

• Open and transparent culture 
• Health and Wellbeing Benefits
• 4 weeks of annual leave
• Melbourne CBD Office - Located on the corner of Queen & Collins St
• Snacks cupboard always stocked up
• Catered lunch the last week of every month

Podium is an equal opportunity employer. Podium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.

IN A NUTSHELL

Bellroy isn’t a software company that happens to make physical products. We’re a product company, and our software exists to give us a real competitive edge. That distinction matters. It means we care about quality and craft, not just delivery speed. We build systems that solve real-world problems for our customers, our team, and our operations, and we do it with care.

We're extending the capabilities of our bespoke e-commerce platform, integrating with digital marketplaces around the world and supporting the release of exciting new carry goods. As we scale, we're looking for a developer who’s genuinely at home in functional programming – whether your background is in Haskell, Clojure, Elixir, F#, Scala, OCaml, Erlang, or similar – to help us build an elegant platform to support our growth.

We care less about which functional language you’ve used, and more about whether you think in maps, folds and algebraic data types; about types and composition; about building systems that are correct, observable and evolve gracefully. While we love pure functional programming as much as the next lambda enthusiast, we're pragmatic enough to know that sometimes a clever hack beats a perfect abstraction. The key is knowing the difference.

Your growth matters to us. Beyond our learning budget, you'll find yourself immersed in a culture of continuous learning through our hack days, company-wide learning events, and our weekly Technology Team book clubs and mob programming sessions. We've explored everything from UX classics like Don't Make Me Think to engineering fundamentals like The Pragmatic Programmer.

Bring us your problem-solving prowess and quick thinking. In return, we offer a culture where intellectual honesty isn't just encouraged, it's expected. Where autonomy isn't just promised - it's built into our workflow. Where you'll have the tools you need to turn great ideas into reality.

YOU COULD BE THE ONE IF YOU...

• Have spent 2+ years writing production code in a functional language (for example Haskell, Clojure, Elixir, F#, Scala, OCaml, Erlang, or a strongly‑functional style in Rust, Kotlin or Swift)
• Take pride in crafting code that's thoughtfully designed and built to last
• Are more interested in mastering your craft than climbing the management ladder (though we're open to that changing as you grow with us)
• Thrive in a cross-functional environment, collaborating with experts across product design, data science, logistics, and beyond
• See your work as more than a paycheck - you're driven by the challenge of creating exceptional solutions
• Have an insatiable curiosity for new ideas, whether they come from technical blogs or philosophy podcasts
• Want to be part of a company that's using business as a force for good

WE'D BE EXTRA THRILLED IF YOU...

• Have tamed Nix and lived to tell the tale
• Know your way around the AWS ecosystem
• Can navigate Ruby on Rails codebases (we have a slowly shrinking, legacy Rails ecosystem that interfaces with our Haskell services)

IF YOU WERE HERE LAST WEEK, YOU WOULD HAVE…

• Tidied up loose ends from the project you just finished with another member of the team, and taken some time to make some of the code you wrote more elegant and maintainable
• Joined the whole team in a retrospective, and helped create a shortlist of continuous improvement tasks for us to prioritise
• Taken part in our bi-monthly Hack Day event, and spent a day working on something that inspires you or fixing something that annoys you
• Attended our weekly Functional Programming meet to discuss some new Haskell packages and conventions we’re thinking about using
• Spend time improving your skills, tooling and workflows during our weekly “cooldown” days

LOCATION AND HOURS

Work remotely from Brazil

HOW TO APPLY

Start by exploring our website and Our Story to get a feel for who we are. If you see yourself thriving here, send us your resume, a link to some of your work you are proud of and the MD5 (hexadecimal) hash of the string "All The Things With You".

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.

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.

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

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