Remitly
Senior Engineering Manager, Remitly Global Card (Hands-On)
Arlington Virginia, United States · Senior
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About the role
- Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money- we're here to move our global customers forward.
- We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation.
- If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career-we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
Responsibilities
- You'll build with AI in the loop every day, as we become AI native at Remitly, while holding the correctness and trust bar a regulated money product demands.
- Provide technical leadership and lead complex, long-term, cross-team engineering effort and drive engineering strategy for the squads while solving the hardest technical challenges.
- Partner with product and design stakeholders to prioritize the roadmap and translate strategic ambitions into actionable OKRs.
- Partner with leadership to influence and drive organizational design, contribution and prioritization.
- Represent the team in cross-functional planning with Product, Design, Analytics, and partner engineering teams
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including hands-on technical management building full-stack software solution, API design, and interactions between servers and clients.
- This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs.
Requirements
- Expertise in at least one backend or full-stack programming language (e.g., Go, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript), with the ability to adapt to new languages/frameworks as needed.
Nice to have
- You have a BS (accepted) or MS (Preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- Demonstrated aptitude and judgment for applying AI to developer productivity and, ideally, product features - including enabling safe AI tool adoption on the team.
Skills
- Experience designing secure, scalable, performant software using cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS).
Compensation
- The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000 - 260,000 USD Annual.
- In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.
- Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
- Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
- Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Continuing education
Company info
- Remitly is an E-Verify Employer At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Remitly is building the Remitly Global Card, the first ever card that gives customers a single, trusted place to hold, spend, and move their money, launching across multiple geographies.
- At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them.
- Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind.
- As the Senior Engineering Manager for the Card team, you will lead a team of engineers who own features end to end, the screens customers see, the APIs behind them, and the services that issue cards, hold balances, and move money.
- At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together.
- At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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