4 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship backend product features end to end, including services, APIs, data models, and durable workflows.
- Build scalable money-movement workflows using Temporal, including idempotency, observability, ledgering, reconciliation, and compliance gating.
- Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex as part of daily development while maintaining architectural correctness and quality.
- Develop well-tested, resilient, extensible, and scalable systems and uphold standards for security, reliability, and observability.
- Shape technical roadmaps and make tradeoffs across priorities, user experience, and long-term technical sustainability.
- Own large features from design through launch in partnership with Product Management.
- Contribute through code, design, and architecture reviews and participate in technical interviews.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Operations, with occasional React/TypeScript frontend work.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of engineering experience building backend services in collaborative, cross-functional environments.
- Strong Go skills or deep experience in Java, Kotlin, C#, or a comparable language with the ability to adopt Go quickly.
- Daily fluency with AI coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex and the ability to demonstrate increased delivery speed without compromising quality.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and performant services on cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
- Experience owning large features with Product Management, including breaking work into workstreams, estimating timelines, and driving launches.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with Temporal, Cadence, Step Functions, or similar workflow orchestration tools; payments, fintech, or money movement; and React/TypeScript.
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 and travel benefits.
- Hybrid work from the Seattle office with an expectation of at least 50% in-office time monthly, typically three days per week.
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.