Job Description:
At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
About the Role:
The IHUB team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join Remitly and drive the scaling of our funding and disbursement processing across our vast operational regions while collaborating with teams across the company. In this role, you will own the delivery of features that expand our pay-in and pay-out networks globally, leading work against a backlog designed to expand our Global Network that powers all of Remitly's product offerings in creative ways. You'll work in an AI-forward engineering culture: we expect engineers to use AI tools across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation to move faster while managing the correctness of everything they ship.
You Will:
Own the design and delivery of new partner integrations for our pay-in and pay-out networks, with the possibility of working with partners that support money movements for over 170 countries and growing
Use AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery, factoring it into your estimates and verifying AI-generated output meets the team's bar for correctness, security, and maintainability
Deliver well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions.
Own the operational health of your services, including on-call, SLOs, and incident response
Interview candidates and mentor new hires through code review and ramp-up.
Drive task breakdown, estimates, and tradeoff discussions in partnership with PM
Partner with Operations team members across the globe to provide technical recommendations to customer-facing problems
Work with partners around the globe and be a representative of the company and our engineering team to our global partners
Be the go-to expert with tools, programming languages, and engineering processes used within the team in a scalable cloud-based architecture
Write technical specifications and lead design reviews
Promote best practices and push for technical excellence across the company
Partner with your manager to shape the technical direction and roadmap
You Have:
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
6+ years of building, shipping, and maintaining consumer software products
2+ years working with services deployed on a commercial cloud provider like AWS
1+ year leading features with multiple engineers
Experience using AI tools to accelerate code construction, testing, and documentation in a production environment
General experience migrating legacy services into modernized architecture
Expertise in Java, GoLang, or other general purposes languages
Expertise in working with large-scale database systems like MySQL, DynamoDB
Expertise in working with monitoring systems such as Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics
Experience in technical architecture and system design decisions
Clear and objective writing and in-person communication
A desire for learning new technologies and systems
Payments/Fintech experience - added bonus!
Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180,000-$225,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.
#LI-Hybrid
Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education
Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together
At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.
Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
Remitly is an E-Verify Employer
At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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