5 days ago
Base Salary
$240k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical vision and strategy for the Core Transfer Experience organization.
- Lead modernization and re-architecture of high-traffic money transfer systems while managing legacy coupling and architectural debt.
- Define service, API, and experience-layer boundaries across backend, mobile, web, conversational, agentic, and regional teams.
- Establish and uphold standards for scale, latency, reliability, SLOs, error budgets, observability, and operational tooling.
- Create architectural foundations for new and AI-native customer capabilities.
- Align technical strategy with business outcomes in partnership with the GM, engineering managers, product, and design leadership.
- Mentor staff and senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.
- Contribute hands-on through coding, system analysis, and technical reviews.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and operating large-scale, customer-facing distributed systems.
- Expertise in backend service architecture, APIs, event-driven systems, and data models, with practical experience in mobile and/or web experience layers.
- Demonstrated success leading modernization or re-architecture of high-traffic production systems through incremental migration and strangler patterns.
- Experience setting technical strategy across multiple teams, aligning architectures, influencing roadmaps, and driving organization-wide decisions.
- Experience owning SLOs for systems with significant customer and business impact.
- Preferred experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated and trust-critical domains.
- Preferred experience building conversational, agentic, or AI-native product experiences or supporting platforms.
- Preferred experience with large-scale experimentation, conversion optimization, global customer products, and regional variation.
- Engineering-community contributions through publications, talks, open source, or tooling are preferred.
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 work with onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday each week, with additional onsite attendance potentially required based on business needs.
Tech Stack
React Native
Categories
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.