1 day ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a technical area of the transaction platform and serve as its subject-matter expert.
- Improve the accuracy, latency, and reliability of customer delivery-time estimates.
- Help peer teams migrate to new platform APIs without interrupting production traffic.
- Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple engineers, including requirements clarification, workstream breakdown, estimation, and delivery guidance.
- Write technical specifications, lead design reviews, and contribute to cross-team architecture decisions.
- Build idempotent, tested, observable, documented, scalable, and resilient services and APIs.
- Own service operations, including on-call, SLOs, incident response, and root-cause resolution.
- Evaluate AI-generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability and coach peers on responsible AI use.
- Partner with product managers and engineers to shape technical direction and translate customer needs into reliable solutions.
- Mentor engineers through reviews, interviews, and onboarding.
Requirements
- A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software development experience building and operating production backend systems.
- At least 1 year leading features involving multiple engineers and breaking ambiguous work into executable workstreams.
- Expertise in Go, Kotlin, or similar languages such as Java, Python, or C++.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed backend systems on AWS.
- Expertise with large-scale database systems such as MySQL and DynamoDB.
- Experience with monitoring, CI/CD, infrastructure tooling, and improving deployment, testing, logging, and monitoring practices.
- Experience migrating or decommissioning production systems while they remain in use.
- A track record of technical architecture and system design decisions.
- Experience evaluating AI-generated code and coaching others on responsible AI use.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working with ambiguous requirements and technical tradeoffs.
- Preferred experience with payments, fintech, data correctness, auditability, or durable workflow orchestration such as Temporal.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage plus a 401k plan with company matching.
- Paid parental, medical, military, and family care leave.
- Mental Health and Family Forming Benefits.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- Continuing education.
- Connected Work Culture with an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically three days per week for corporate team members.
About Remitly
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.