22 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate schemas, pipelines, data marts, and feature pipelines for card, credit, payments, and fraud-model data.
- Define the architecture and roadmap for data systems with scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient designs.
- Implement data quality checks, freshness and reliability targets, automated pipeline tests, monitoring, alerts, backfills, recovery processes, and source validation.
- Partner with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to create reusable schemas, data contracts, modeled tables, shared metrics, documentation, and lineage.
- Set standards for data modeling, code review, access control, sensitive-data handling, retention, and deletion.
- Build and improve backend services and collaborate with platform teams on shared data infrastructure and tooling.
- Lead projects, mentor engineers and analysts, conduct design and code reviews, and participate in technical interviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Expert SQL and strong data modeling skills, including dimensional modeling, schema evolution, and scalable analytical table design.
- Experience building and operating large-scale pipelines with orchestration, incremental batch loads, streaming, distributed processing or query engines, cloud infrastructure, testing, and monitoring.
- Proficiency in at least one data or backend programming language, such as Python, Scala, Java, or Go, plus experience operating backend services.
- Experience leading team-level projects, setting technical direction, managing parallel workstreams, estimating timelines, and mentoring engineers.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into technical plans and collaborate with product, analytics, and data science stakeholders.
- Experience using AI tools in development while reviewing generated code and protecting sensitive data.
- At least five years of data engineering experience in a collaborative, cross-functional environment.
- Fintech, lending, or payments experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance 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.
- Continuing education benefits.
- Hybrid work arrangement in the Arlington, VA office, with onsite work expected Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional attendance possible based on business needs.
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.