Senior Software Engineer, Payments
Remitly is on a mission to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial products on the planet. For nearly 10 years, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to immigrants sending their hard earned money home. Today, we are proud to have served millions of customers globally with Remitly and our newly launched Passbook app to provide immigrants access to banking. We strive daily to meet our promise to our customers by building peace of mind into everything we do. Join over 1,300 employees across 9 offices who are growing their careers while having a positive impact on people globally.
About the Role
Our Payments team is pioneering that growth, launching and incubating our remittance product in new markets while working across all technical systems in the company. We're a small team, working with business, product, front/backend engineers, DevOps and Infra. Joining at such an early stage, you will have a large impact on the cultural and technical foundation of our Payments team.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager for North America Payments, you'll take on challenging technical problems in the payments space; think wallet, banking, and more! You'll help us scale the platform that powers our mobile and web applications, while applying your distributed systems knowledge and using technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Databases, Queues, Streams and more. You will also help choose new technologies to enhance the architecture to promote new functionality, using data to inform your decision, alongside preparing the team and us for next gen payments acceptance.
You Will
- Evaluate technical options and apply best practices and design patterns to build high-quality systems
- Integrate a scalable platform for connecting to diverse bank APIs around the globe to collect and manage funds
- Create customer experiences, add new payment methods, help mitigate fraud and risk and improve operational supportability
- Build resilient systems to detect and respond to external system outages
- Mentor, promote best practices, and push for technical excellence across the company
- Partner closely with your manager and promote the technical direction and roadmap
You Have
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience shipping high-quality products
- 1+ year leading features with multiple engineers
- Experience building, shipping, and maintaining web services and systems on AWS
- Expertise in one or more general purpose languages like Java, JavaScript, Go, PHP, Python, Kotlin, C# or Ruby
- Practice mentoring and growing other engineers
- Experience defining and deploying technical best practices across a team
- Payments/Fintech experience - Additional brownie points!
Our Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Health, dental, and vision benefits + 401k plan with company matching
- Company contributions to your HSA or FSA plan, if you choose one
- Continuing education and corridor travel benefits
- Scholars program
Remitly is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. We 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.
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