Senior Full-Stack Software Development Engineer, Remitly
$155-190k
+ equity
Office located in Burnaby, BC
International payments company
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International payments company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$155-190k
+ equity
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 a demonstrated ability to independently design and ship production systems at scale
- Strong backend fundamentals — experience building, scaling, and operating distributed services in a language such as Go, Java, Python, or Kotlin
- Comfort working across the stack, including building or integrating with customer-facing interfaces (e.g., React/TypeScript), even if backend is your primary focus
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and performant systems on cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS)
- A track record of leading feature development across a team — breaking down work, writing specs, coordinating dependencies, and delivering on commitments
- Strong fundamentals in system design: data modeling, API design, service reliability, and performance trade-offs
- Experience with observability and production operations — instrumenting code, reading dashboards, and debugging under pressure
- A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to team technical standards
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Nice to have: experience in payments, fintech, or money movement
What the job involves
- As a Senior Full-Stack Software Development Engineer, you will own meaningful features end-to-end — from technical design through production — partnering closely with product, design, and fellow engineers to build systems our customers can trust with their most important transactions
- You will operate independently, solve problems that span multiple systems and stakeholders, and help set the technical bar for the team around you. You will report to an Engineering Manager and work in a hybrid capacity from our office
- Own features end-to-end. Design, implement, test, and operate the services and interfaces you build. Take pride in the quality, reliability, and observability of what ships to production, from first commit onward
- Lead technical design. Break down complex, ambiguous problems into well-sequenced, parallelizable work. Write clear technical specs, provide accurate estimates, and surface trade-offs so the team builds the right thing, not just the specified thing
- Raise the engineering bar. Write high-quality, well-tested code and conduct meaningful code and design reviews. Apply strong practices in reliability, security, and observability. Use AI-assisted tools thoughtfully to move faster, while owning the correctness and architecture that tooling alone can't guarantee
- Drive cross-team collaboration. Partner with Product, Design, and adjacent engineering teams to align on requirements, dependencies, and delivery plans. Help resolve technical disagreements and unblock related work
- Mentor and grow peers. Be a go-to resource for other engineers through pairing, code review, and design feedback. Represent Remitly's technical standards and values in interviews and hiring
- Operate what you build. Participate in on-call rotations and share ownership of your team's production systems. Proactively reduce toil and resolve 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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