The posting
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:
The IHUB team is looking for an SDE 1 to join Remitly and help scale our funding and disbursement processing across our vast operational regions while working and collaborating with teams across the company. As an SDE 1, 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. You'll work in an AI-forward engineering culture. We expect engineers to leverage AI tools effectively across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation to move faster, while owning the correctness of everything they ship.
You Will:
- 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
- Use AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery, factoring it into your estimates and verifying AI-generated output meets the team's bar for correctness, security, and maintainability
- 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 to 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 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 with your engineering manager and promote the technical direction and roadmap
You Have:
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of building, shipping, and maintaining consumer software products
- 1+ years working with services deployed on a commercial cloud provider like AWS
- Experience using AI tools to accelerate code construction, testing, and documentation in a production environment
- 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!
Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $124,000-$155,000. 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.
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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
Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.
Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
Remitly is an E-Verify Employer
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.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
