Senior Software Development Engineer, Remitly
Recipient & Payment Experience
$152-190k
+ Equity + ESPP
Office located in Burnaby, BC
International payments company
Open for applications
International payments company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$152-190k
+ Equity + ESPP
Office located in Burnaby, BC
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently design and ship production systems at scale
- Backend engineering expertise — strong fundamentals in building, scaling, and operating distributed services. Experience with Go is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin with a genuine interest in adopting Go is also valued
- Frontend proficiency — comfortable building customer-facing experiences in TypeScript (React or similar). You don't need to be a frontend specialist, but you should be able to own a feature across the stack without handing off at the boundary
- Experience leading feature development across a team: breaking down work, writing technical specs, coordinating dependencies, and delivering on commitments
- Strong fundamentals in system design — data modeling, API design, service reliability, and performance. You've made architecture decisions and understand the long-term consequences of those choices
- A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to team technical standards — through code review, design feedback, or direct coaching
- Experience with observability and production operations — you know how to instrument your code, read dashboards, and debug production issues under pressure
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Payments or fintech experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement
What the job involves
- The Recipient & Payment Experience (RPX) team owns two of the most trust-critical surfaces in the Remitly product: who customers are sending money to, and how they're paying for it. From the moment a customer saves a recipient's details to the moment a payment method is validated and a transfer is initiated, RPX is responsible for making that experience fast, reliable, and worry-free — for every customer, in every corridor
- What makes RPX unique is that it operates as both a product team and a platform team. On the product side, we own the customer-facing surfaces for recipient management and pay-in flows — the forms, states, and experiences customers interact with directly. On the platform side, we own the customer domain layer: the shared APIs, data models, and services that encode how Remitly represents a remittance customer across the entire product. Getting both right — and keeping them consistent — is one of the defining engineering challenges of this role
- As a Senior Software Development Engineer on RPX, you will own meaningful features end-to-end across a Go-based backend and TypeScript frontend. You will partner with product, design, and your fellow engineers to build experiences that customers trust with their most important transactions. You will report to the Engineering Manager, RPX and work in a hybrid capacity from our Burnaby, BC office
- Ship full-stack features end-to-end: Design, implement, test, and operate backend services (Go) and customer-facing interfaces (TypeScript) that power recipient management and pay-in experiences. Own your work from first commit to production, and take pride in the quality, reliability, and observability of what you ship
- Build and evolve the customer domain platform: Contribute to the shared APIs, data models, and service contracts that define how Remitly represents recipients, payment methods, and customer state across the product. Balance the need for a stable, well-abstracted platform with the speed of product delivery
- Lead features across the team: Break down complex problems into well-sequenced, parallelizable work. Provide accurate estimates, surface tradeoffs clearly, and drive your work to completion with a high degree of ownership. Partner with PM and design to make sure what gets built is the right thing — not just the specified thing
- Raise the engineering bar: Write production-quality code and conduct meaningful code reviews. Participate actively in design reviews. Apply best practices across reliability, observability, security, and testing. Champion the effective use of AI tools in your own workflow and share what you learn with the team
- Mentor and grow peers: Be a go-to resource for more junior engineers on the team. Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, and informal learning moments. Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring
- Operate what you build: Participate in on-call rotations and take shared ownership of the systems your team runs in production. Proactively improve system reliability, reduce toil, and address root causes — not just symptoms
Our take
Since its inception in 2011, Remitly has focussed on helping immigrants to send money across the world faster, cheaper and easier. The company has grown exponentially since then and now operates across multiple continents. Remitly put down most of its success on putting its customers first.
The emergence of digital banks with low transaction fees cross-country has increased competition in a space where Remitly was dominant for many years. The company must continue to innovate its product to ensure it is the go-to place for these types of payments.
That said, Remitly continues to partner with exciting companies and improve their service for loyal customers. The company is setting its sights beyond its core remittance service, such as through the introduction of Passbook, an app that allows customers to access digital banking through a partner bank.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Jul 2020
$85m
LATE VC
Jul 2019
$135m
SERIES E
Total funding: $435.8m
Company benefits
- Spend up to $1,000 per year on costs related to continuing education or on travel to countries Remitly serves, allowing you to gain insights to our customer’s journeys
- All of our office spaces offer our employees a place to collaborate and celebrate. With locally sourced artwork and vibrant designs, they create an environment that all can enjoy
- Fill your cup up outside of work and take advantage of our generous paid time off policies, leave policies, and flex working hours to ensure you are able to meet the demands of life outside of work
- Tap into the learning routines, resources and affinity groups Remitly provides to help you further your own DEI journey
- Contribute to the communities we serve through volunteering, employee giving, or civic advocacy
- Remitly provides rich benefit plans intended to cover the needs of our diverse teammates
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Matt Oppenheimer
(CEO & Co-Founder)After completing an M.B.A from Harvard Business School he worked as a Director for Barclays before founding Remitly in 2011.
Josh Hug
(Vice Chair & Co-Founder)He was a Director at Real Networks for 7 years before co-founding Shelfari, which was acquired by Amazon as he stayed onboard to run it as CEO.
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