Software Development Engineer, Remitly
Office located in New Westminster, BC
International payments company
Open for applications
International payments company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in New Westminster, BC
1001+ employees
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
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of building, shipping, and maintaining consumer software products
- 2+ years working with services deployed on a commercial cloud provider like AWS
- General experience migrating legacy services into modernized architecture
- Proficiency in Java, GoLang, or other general purposes languages
- Proficiency in working with large-scale database systems like MySQL, DynamoDB
- Proficiency in working with monitoring systems such as Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics
- General knowledge of technical architecture and system design concepts
- Clear and objective writing and in-person communication
- A desire for learning new technologies and systems
- Payments/Fintech experience - added bonus!
What the job involves
- The Global Network (GNET) team is looking for an SDE 2 to join Remitly and help scale our funding and disbursement processing across our vast operational regions, alongside collaborating with other engineers towards setting a north star technical vision
- As an SDE 2, you will bring exciting features to our customers by contributing to the expansion of our pay-in and pay-out networks globally
- You will help build against a backlog of features designed to expand our Global Network powering all of Remitly's product offerings in creative ways
- Develop new partner integrations for our pay-in and pay-out networks, with the possibility of working with partners that support money movements for over 170 countries and growing
- Deliver well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions
- Participate in interviewing, code reviewing, mentoring, and ramping new hires
- Partner with PM to break down tasks, provide estimates, and discuss tradeoffs
- Partner with Operations team members across the globe to provide technical recommendations for customer-facing problems
- Work with partners around the globe and be a representative of the company and our engineering team to our global partners
- Become an expert with tools, programming languages, and engineering processes used within the GNET team in a scalable cloud-based architecture
- Write technical specifications and participate in design reviews
- Mentor, promote best practices, and push for technical excellence across the company
- Partner closely with your manager and promote the technical direction and roadmap
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.
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 the recent introduction of Passbook, an app that allows customers to access digital banking through a partner bank.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 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 & 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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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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