Staff Software Engineer, Remitly
Core Transfer Experience
CA$188-235k
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Burnaby, BC)
International payments company
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International payments company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$188-235k
+ Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan
More information about location
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
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a staff-level role, including significant experience building and shipping consumer-facing products at scale
- Demonstrated technical breadth across the customer experience stack. You've led initiatives that required owning decisions across multiple layers (e.g., customer-facing surfaces, APIs, backend services, data) and understanding how choices in one layer affect the others
- Advanced expertise in one or more software languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar), including selecting the most effective algorithms and data structures for your problem domain
- Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, with strong fundamentals in system design, data modeling, and performance optimization
- Experience leading team design reviews and understanding the legacy of technology decisions, including how to limit solutions that pose serious consequences or unnecessary complexity
- Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, estimate project timelines, and interact with stakeholders with a high degree of autonomy
- Experience with observability, reliability engineering, and ensuring high availability in mission-critical production systems
- Actively incorporates AI tools into their engineering practice: you use AI tools effectively in your own work, understand how they shift team velocity and estimates, and can help others apply them well
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- The Core Transfer Experience team owns the systems and product surfaces that power frictionless cross-border transfers for millions of Remitly customers
- From the moment a customer initiates a transfer to the moment funds arrive, our team is responsible for delivering an experience that is fast, reliable, and trusted across 5,300+ corridors; removing friction at every step of the journey
- What makes this team unique is that we operate in two capacities simultaneously: as a product team, delivering the core transfer experience directly to customers, and as a foundations team, building the platform capabilities that regional and product teams across Remitly depend on to serve their own customers and markets
- Getting both right and keeping them in sync, is one of the defining engineering challenges of this role
- As a Staff Software Engineer on Core Transfer Experience, you will serve as a technical leader who can reason across the entire customer experience; from the interfaces customers interact with to the distributed systems that orchestrate each transfer
- You will shape the architecture and evolution of Remitly's most critical customer journey: driving domain-level technical strategy, partnering across product, design, and engineering, and raising the engineering bar across your team and the customer teams that depend on you
- You will report to the Director of Engineering, Core Transfer Experience
- Drive technical strategy: Advise on domain-level strategic planning and roadmap prioritization for the Core Transfer Experience. Lead team-level design reviews to ensure proposed solutions span the right layers of the customer experience, align with Remitly's long-term architecture plans, and deliver the right business outcomes
- Lead large-scale initiatives: Serve as the technical strategist for the remittance experience platform; owning the architecture and delivery of both customer-facing transfer experiences and the foundational platform capabilities that regional and product teams depend on to serve their customers. This means leading major launches across the transfer journey (ex. new product flows) while simultaneously ensuring the platform is extensible, reliable, and well-abstracted enough for other teams to build on confidently. Plan and sequence work across both dimensions to deliver faster, frame build-vs.-buy decisions, and balance the desire to write new software with the reality of maintaining it
- Stay close to the code: Actively contribute to the systems you help design; through hands-on analysis, meaningful code reviews, and direct contributions. Use your breadth across the customer experience to catch issues that specialists working in a single layer might miss
- Advance engineering excellence: Contribute to the evolution of Remitly's Foundational Excellence standards across reliability, observability, security, and quality. Proactively automate, eliminate, and streamline team processes, and mitigate long-term risks caused by complexity. Champion effective use of AI tools across the team; shaping how we build, estimate, and maintain software as AI capabilities evolve
- Mentor and grow engineers: Actively mentor SDEs across the team, drive efforts to expand team knowledge and skills, and lead training modules or learning sessions. Guide the team in applying AI tools effectively as a force multiplier. Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring
- Collaborate and influence: Build relationships across engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and Operations to deliver on shared goals. Increase SDE effectiveness to amplify their impact, and elicit opposing views to drive the best decisions
- Ensure operational excellence: Implement methods for achieving the highest cost-utilization and efficiency out of computing resources powering the transfer experience. Evaluate external technologies for commercial use and resolve root causes of architecture deficiencies; scaling problems, latency, data quality, and similar issues
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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