Engineering Manager, Remitly
Salary not provided
PHP
SQL
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Go
Kotlin
Senior and Expert level
Vancouver
Office located in New Westminster, British Columbia
International payments company
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International payments company
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsForeign exchange
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
PHP
SQL
AWS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Go
Kotlin
Senior and Expert level
Vancouver
Office located in New Westminster, British Columbia
1001+ employees
FintechB2CPersonal financePaymentsForeign exchange
Company mission
To transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial service products on the planet.
Role
Who you are
- To succeed in this role, you should enjoy being in a startup environment and working hands-on with others across the company
- You know how to make good short and long-term trade-offs to enable a quick test-and-learn cycle while not sacrificing performance and user experience
- You have the desire to continuously improve and grow your own technical skills and scope or influence
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree or experience
- Typically 8+ years of experience, including:
- Typically 1-3 years of experience in a technical leadership role
- Typically 1-3 years of experience leading core engineering efforts / technical teams / distributed teams
- Experience defining and influencing technical designs and processes across a team
- An understanding of software development practices, system design, software design patterns, and algorithms
- Familiarity with technologies used in the project (one or more) Java, JavaScript, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, PHP, SQL and NoSQL databases, AWS
- Experience building diverse, empowered teams
- Platform-oriented & data-driven approach
- Experience working with teams shipping full-stack features or products, is a nice bonus
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager at Remitly, you are a builder, innovator and a leader, responsible for taking on complex technical and customer challenges and creating great products backed by great systems
- We use cutting-edge languages, tools, and frameworks to build applications and services based on scalable cloud architecture
- Our startup work environment is fast-paced, mission-driven, and growing quickly
- As part of the Global Money Movement team (GMM), you'll help build a state-of-the-art integration platform that is highly scalable, robust, and capable of supporting rapid network expansion and thus, embrace the ideology of integration-as-a-service
- You'll be working with a passionate cross-functional team of analysts, product managers, and engineers dedicated to understanding our platform and business needs
- You'll work within the global money movement domain and lead a team set out to build an integration platform; core components, capabilities and building blocks needed by any product or business line towards rapid expansion of our partner network
- Provide Technical Leadership and lead complex, long-term, cross-team engineering efforts
- Partner with product managers to understand requirements, translate these requirements into technical tasks, and ensure the engineering team delivers the expected outcome
- You'll work in a data-centric organization setting up measurable experiments around your work
- Set the technical vision for the integration platform team and partner with engineers of other teams to set a broader technical vision
- Set a high bar for planning and execution, including quarterly objective definition, resource allocation, and re-prioritization when necessary
- You explain the options and tradeoffs between schedule, features, and quality across interdependent systems, and make sound technical decisions
- You will deploy your expertise in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, and software development processes to achieve amazing things for the team
- Be a role model in upholding Remitly's cultural values and use them as a framework to mentor other engineers across the company to achieve their full potential
- You will help set and hire against a high engineering talent bar for the team
- Advocate for the engineering team on a company-wide audience
- Manage the system of work of one product team with a DevOps mindset
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 operate across multiple continents. Remitly put down most of their success from putting their customers first.
The emergence of digital banks with low transaction fees cross-country has increased the competition in a space whereas previously Remitly was dominant for many years. The company must continue to innovate on product to make sure they're the go-to place for these types of payments.
However, 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 recent 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
Top investors
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 values
- Customer centricity: We are here to listen to, learn from and serve our customers. Period.
- Deliver on promises: We help our customers deliver on their promises by keeping our promises. We are accountable for our commitments, no matter how small.
- Hire & develop exceptional people: We hire unique and diverse talent who embrace challenges and grow on the job. We coach and invest to help every employee succeed.
- Act with integrity: We have zero tolerance for unethical people, products, practices or partners.
- Sweat the details: We roll up our sleeves and stay connected to the details. We don’t settle for “good enough”.
- Data driven: We attempt to measure everything, then use qualitative and quantitative insights to make better decisions.
- Bias for action: We urgently prioritize and act. A good decision now is better than a great decision later. When necessary, we disagree and commit.
- Be an owner: We think, act and take responsibility beyond our immediate team and role, to benefit our customers, colleagues and the broader business.
- Aim for the stars: We dream big, think long term, and create amazing customer experiences.
- Continuously improve: We are humble, curious and self-driven learners. We work hard to find the “best” way to do something, then keep trying to find an even better way.
- Don’t be afraid to fail: We are purpose-driven and don't let fear impact our decisions or actions. When experiments fail or we make mistakes, we learn fast, openly share our learnings, and jump right back in.
- Lead authentically: Everyone is a leader. We are open, self-aware, and enthusiastically share knowledge and context to help others succeed.
- Be an empathetic partner: We value positive, long-lasting relationships. We listen and seek to understand, assume positive intent, treat everyone with respect, and advocate as allies for each other.
- Constructively direct: We are clear about our own intent, then give and welcome feedback that's direct, compassionate, timely and transparent.
- Joyful: We celebrate how lucky we are to serve our customers and mission, to solve fascinating problems, and to work and have fun with talented colleagues.
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Articles
Leadership
Matt Oppenheimer
(CEO)After completing an M.B.A from Harvard Business School he worked as a Director for Barclays before founding Remitly in 2011
Josh Hug
(COO)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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Remitly
- When immigrant communities have access to financial tools and resources, they change the future for themselves and their loved ones. They also transform the local economies where they live and work, as well as the countries where they send money
- Remitly has joined Pledge 1% and through Remitly’s charitable giving programs, we invest in and support the organizations and coalitions who are committed to improving economic, financial and social inclusion of immigrants and their families
- DEI is deeply rooted in our purpose and mission at Remitly
- To effectively serve millions of customers who send money home to their families, it requires teams of committed individuals who demonstrate a deep level of empathy, genuine curiosity, value varied lived experiences, perspectives and backgrounds, and appreciate the different ways we all think, process, present, and operate. The working environment and culture at Remitly and the ways of working we employ, are designed to inspire and unlock everyone’s best thinking
- All of this is made clear by the way we live our cultural values that show up in how we engage with each other, our customers and the immigrant communities we serve all over the world
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