Senior Software Development Engineer

Company: Remitly, Inc.
Location: Seattle
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

Job Description:Remitly's vision is to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to people who send money around the world. Today, we are reimagining global financial services and building products that extend beyond traditional barriers to give customers access to more of the services they need, no matter where they call home. Join over 2,700 employees worldwide who are growing their careers with purpose and connection with our customers while having a positive impact on millions of people around the globe.About the Role:The Finance Data Platform team caters a single platform and entry point into Remitly's financial systems that provides timely, consistent, complete and accurate data to multiple downstream finance products like ledger, accounting, reconciliation and treasury systems. This is an important part of Remitly's operations - absolutely required for us to conduct business as we grow to serve millions of customers in new markets.Does spending your day thinking about how we build the world's best financial data platform, with high availability and accuracy bring you joy and excitement? As a Senior Engineer on the team, you'll help shape the multi-product ledger vision and support building the core finance data platform. You'll report to the Engineering Manager for the Finance Data Platform team.You Will:

• Deliver scalable systems end-to-end, including development, launch, and long-term support with high autonomy and quality.
• Design and implement solutions for ambiguous and difficult problems involving multiple technologies and backend systems.
• Contribute to the team's technical strategy and system architectures balancing short-term goals with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Guide engineering excellence by delivering well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions, improving team processes, and contributing to cross-team technical designs.
• Enhance team talent through mentoring, code review, interviewing, and ramping new hires.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and analysts to achieve product and customer goals.You Have:
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in a team environment
  • Expertise in one of the backend programming languages (Go, Kotlin/Java) and fluency in database technologies (e.g. RDS and NoSQL like DynamoDB).
  • Experience leading other engineers on large features in collaboration with Product Manager, Analysts and other partners.
  • Experience (or interested) in building and maintaining large scale FinTech systems.Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180-000-$225,000. 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.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 benefitsWe are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.Remitly is an E-Verify EmployerRemitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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