Staff Software Development Engineer

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

Under the supervision of the Senior Engineering Manager, the Staff Software Development Engineer will drive complex, long-term, cross-team software development efforts and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams of professionals. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the United States based on manager approval.

You Will:

• Identify and understand user needs and pain points and design, develop, and implement software solutions to address issues. 

• Determine system performance standards and set the technical vision for customer success team and partner with engineers of other teams to set broader technical vision. 

• Communicate options and trade-offs for alternative software develop approaches, including schedule, features, and quality across interdependent systems, and make sound technical decisions. 

• Develop software solutions by applying expertise in technical writing, distributed systems architecture, coding, and software development methodologies. 

• Mentor software development engineers across the company and ensure best practices in software development initiatives; and 

• Help set and hire against a high engineering talent bar for the team.

You Have:

• Position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• 5 years of progressively responsible experience with software development, including leading development of reliable, available and scalable distributed systems. 

• 3 years of experience with designing and implementing zero-to-one products and features.

• 3 years of experience with providing technical leadership on complex engineering projects. 

• 3 years of experience with building and driving long term technical strategies across multiple engineering teams.

• 3 years of experience with CI/CD tools including Jenkins and Github.

• 3 years of experience with AWS DynamoDb, AWS Lambda, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, AWS Kinesis, GraphQL, Node.js, Postgres, and Typescript. 

• 1 year of experience with React.js.

• 1 year of experience with mentoring engineers of all levels.

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $212,202.00 - $290,000.00. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

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Our Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off

• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching

• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave

• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Continuing education and travel benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment