Senior Software Development Engineer

• Remitly’s Trust Platform powers secure, reliable, and compliant money movement at a global scale
• The Trust Orchestration team builds core capabilities that protect our customers, reduce fraud and abuse, and enable fast, seamless verification experiences across Remitly products
• You will become a product expert and have the opportunity to influence key decisions that shape the charters you work in
• You will build features that hundreds of thousands of customers use every day
• Your day-to-day work will have a direct impact on our customers and business
• You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager in Vancouver
• You’ll design and build backend services that power verification and risk controls used across Remitly
• Ship reliable, observable, and scalable systems that meet strict availability and latency SLOs for customer-facing flows
• Partner with Product, Risk, and Compliance to translate regulatory and operational requirements into robust technical solutions
• Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, testing, on-call, and continuous improvement
• Improve platform primitives for feature gating, configuration, experimentation, and data quality
• Contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, documentation, and operational runbooks
• Lead technical discussions, provide mentorship to junior engineers, and advocate for best practices in coding, testing, and system design
• Contribute to the evolution of the Trust Platform

Benefits

• Spend up to $1,000 per year on costs related to continuing education or on travel to countries Remitly serves, allowing you to gain insights to our customer’s journeys
• All of our office spaces offer our employees a place to collaborate and celebrate. With locally sourced artwork and vibrant designs, they create an environment that all can enjoy
• Fill your cup up outside of work and take advantage of our generous paid time off policies, leave policies, and flex working hours to ensure you are able to meet the demands of life outside of work
• Tap into the learning routines, resources and affinity groups Remitly provides to help you further your own DEI journey
• Contribute to the communities we serve through volunteering, employee giving, or civic advocacy
• Remitly provides rich benefit plans intended to cover the needs of our diverse teammates

• We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation
• Comfortable dealing with a large amount of ambiguity
• Expertise in one of the following programming languages: Kotlin, Java, Go, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript
• Experience building, shipping, and maintaining software
• Experience working directly with product and cross-team stakeholders to achieve outcomes
• 9+ years of backend services development and domain ownership
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience
• Experience owning and operating systems end-to-end
• Passion for cross-team collaboration