Remitly

Staff Software Engineer, Core Transfer Experience

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$188k-$235kDetected 14 days ago

TypeScriptPythonJavaGoKotlinDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewCollaboration

About the role

From the moment a customer initiates a transfer to the moment funds arrive, our team is responsible for delivering an experience that is fast, reliable, and trusted across 5,300+ corridors
removing friction at every step of the journey.
Getting both right and keeping them in sync, is one of the defining engineering challenges of this role.

Responsibilities

driving domain-level technical strategy, partnering across product, design, and engineering, and raising the engineering bar across your team and the customer teams that depend on you.
Lead team-level design reviews to ensure proposed solutions span the right layers of the customer experience, align with Remitly's long-term architecture plans, and deliver the right business outcomes.
This means leading major launches across the transfer journey (ex. new product flows) while simultaneously ensuring the platform is extensible, reliable, and well-abstracted enough for other teams to build on confidently.
Plan and sequence work across both dimensions to deliver faster, frame build-vs.-buy decisions, and balance the desire to write new software with the reality of maintaining it.
Actively contribute to the systems you help design; through hands-on analysis, meaningful code reviews, and direct contributions.
Build relationships across engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and Operations to deliver on shared goals.
This creates consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs.

Requirements

You've led initiatives that required owning decisions across multiple layers (e.g., customer-facing surfaces, APIs, backend services, data) and understanding how choices in one layer affect the others.
Advanced expertise in one or more software languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar), including selecting the most effective algorithms and data structures for your problem domain.
Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, estimate project timelines, and interact with stakeholders with a high degree of autonomy.
Experience with observability, reliability engineering, and ensuring high availability in mission-critical production systems.

Skills

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Contribute to the evolution of Remitly's Foundational Excellence standards across reliability, observability, security, and quality.
Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring.
Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + RRSP plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education and travel benefits

Compensation

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $188,000-$235,000.
In Canada, 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.

Company info

Driving Innovation, Together
At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together.
Our "Connected Work Culture" fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.
For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week.
Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs.
These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
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.
We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations.
Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.
Remitly is an E-Verify Employer Remitly is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer.
The Core Transfer Experience team owns the systems and product surfaces that power frictionless cross-border transfers for millions of Remitly customers.

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