Senior Software Developer Engineer, Remitly
Transaction Monitoring Team
$152-190k
+ ESPP
3 days a week in office (Burnaby, BC)
International payments company
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International payments company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152-190k
+ ESPP
3 days a week in office (Burnaby, BC)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of backend services development and domain ownership
- Proficiency in Go, Kotlin or Java preferred; strong engineers from other backend languages (Javascript, C#, Python) who are willing to ramp on Kotlin are welcome
- Experience with microservice, or distributed systems based on AWS, or similar cloud solutions
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals — you've designed systems that handle scale, failure, and eventually-consistent data
- Data fluency — comfortable writing complex SQL, working with data pipelines, and partnering with analytics teams on data marts and reporting
- Experience working directly with product and cross-team stakeholders to achieve outcomes
- Experience owning and operating systems end-to-end
What the job involves
- You'll own the technical direction of systems like our STAR detection engine and Customer Risk Rating pipeline
- You will build and contribute to detection and automated filing of suspicious activity reports across jurisdictions, risk scoring systems for all Remitly Products
- The team works shoulder-to-shoulder with the Compliance team, Data and Risk Analytics, and collaborates closely with the Product team to translate product ideas into scalable technical systems
- You will report to the Engineering Manager in Vancouver
- This isn't "move fast and break things." Transaction monitoring is one of the few engineering domains where correctness has legal consequences — a missed report or a false negative has real-world regulatory impact. If you want to solve hard technical problems at scale where the quality of your work directly matters, this team is a compelling place to do it
- Design and build risk controls using the latest industry standards, develop backend services that reinforce verification used across Remitly
- Ship reliable, observable, and scalable systems that meet strict availability and latency SLOs for customer-facing flows
- Partner with Product, Risk, and Compliance to translate regulatory and operational requirements into robust technical solutions
- Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, testing, on-call, and continuous improvement
- Contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, documentation, and operational runbooks
- Lead technical discussions, provide mentorship to junior engineers, and advocate for best practices in coding, testing, and system design
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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