Remitly

Staff Software Development Engineer

Remitly
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$208k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate source control, build, test, release, deployment, CI/CD, and internal developer platform infrastructure.
  • Own reliability for company-wide developer platforms, including health monitoring, on-call support, and root-cause resolution.
  • Extend tooling and guardrails for engineers, product managers, designers, and other Builders using AI-assisted workflows.
  • Build AI-aware platform capabilities and define standards for evaluating and validating AI-assisted and AI-generated contributions.
  • Lead technical design reviews and planning for large initiatives, breaking them into parallel workstreams and incorporating AI into estimation and capacity planning.
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure platform security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and quality.
  • Mentor engineers, participate in hiring and interviews, and raise the technical bar for developer platform work.
  • Apply industry best practices in developer platforms and AI-assisted engineering.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3 years focused on developer tools, build and release systems, or cloud infrastructure platforms rather than product-facing systems.
  • Advanced expertise in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript, with hands-on experience in CI/CD systems, source-control platform administration, or internal developer and deployment platforms.
  • Experience leading technical design reviews and decomposing large, ambiguous company-wide initiatives such as large-scale or multi-region migrations.
  • Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to deliver infrastructure meeting strict regulatory requirements, ideally in a regulated industry.
  • Demonstrated impact from developer-platform, builder-platform, or infrastructure work that improved productivity, reliability, or velocity across teams or the organization.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage with a 401k plan and company matching.
  • Paid parental, medical, military, and family care leave.
  • Mental Health and Family Forming Benefits.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
  • Continuing education.
  • Hybrid Seattle, Washington work arrangement with onsite work Tuesday through Thursday each week; additional onsite attendance may be required.

Tech Stack

GitHub ActionsGoJenkinsPythonTypeScript

Categories

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About Remitly

1,001-5,000 employees

Remitly builds a digital remittance platform and mobile app for sending money across borders, with delivery options like bank deposit, cash pickup, and mobile wallets. It earns revenue from transfer fees and foreign-exchange spreads, serving immigrant communities and their families. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Remitly is a public company listed on NASDAQ (ticker: RELY) with operations across major send and receive corridors worldwide.

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