Senior 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:

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 benefits

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. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team’s specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

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.