Remitly

Remitly

Senior Software Development Engineer

Seattle, Washington United States · Senior

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About the role

  • Our business operates in a highly regulated financial technology domain, serving customers across the entire globe.
  • This position will report to the Engineering Manager of Builder Experience.
  • This role will be hybrid based in Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities

  • Extend our tooling and guardrails to support the full range of Builders at Remitly, not just engineers writing code including PMs, designers, and others building with AI agents, so they can ship safely within a regulated environment
  • Lead team-level design reviews and technical planning for Team initiatives, breaking large initiatives into workstreams delivered in parallel, and factor AI into estimation and capacity planning
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance as the platform owner accountable for security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and quality across everything Builder Experience ships
  • Experience leading technical design reviews and breaking large, ambiguous company wide initiatives such as large scale migrations, multi region into workstreams other engineers can execute in parallel
  • A track record of driving Builder-platform / Developer platform or infrastructure work that improved productivity, reliability, or velocity beyond your own team with measurable impact across other teams or the org, not just your codebase.

Nice to have

  • Mentor engineers on the team, contribute to hiring and interviewing, and help raise the technical bar for Builder platform work at Remitly
  • Stay current on industry best practice in Builder platforms and AI-assisted engineering, and apply it to keep Builder Experience ahead of the size and complexity of Remitly's tech stack.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ship Builder infrastructure that meets strict regulatory requirements, ideally in a regulated industry
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

Benefits

  • Own reliability for teams systems that every engineering team at Remitly depends on for shipping software including including health, on-call ownership and root-cause resolution when they break

Company info

  • Shape how AI is used in Remitly's own development lifecycle: build AI-aware capabilities into our platform and help define standards for evaluating and validation AI-assisted and AI-generated contributions

Equal opportunity

  • Remitly is an equal opportunity employer.
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