Director of Engineering App Platform

Job Description:

At Remitly we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access move and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011 weve 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 its supporting loved ones back home growing a business across continents or pursuing new opportunities abroad were not just here to move money were here to move our global customers forward.

Were looking for builders reimaginers and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology trust and transformation. If thats you and youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your careerwe invite you to join over 2800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

The way software gets built is changing faster than at any point in the last twenty years. At Remitly we move money for millions of customers around the world and how fast and well we do that depends on the platforms and tooling our builders use every day.

Were hiring a Director of Engineering to lead our App Platform team. Youll evolve the systems behind Remitlys web and native client experiences including deep ownership of the platforms our iOS and Android teams build on along with the tooling our engineers use to build our products and customer experiences.

Your mandate is to transform how we build increasing the velocity of every engineering and product team at Remitly quarter over quarter.

This is a hands-on role. Youll set direction and grow leaders while using the tools yourself shipping and forming your own opinions from first contact. The teams winning right now arent the ones with the best roadmaps. Theyre the ones shipping the third version while everyone else is debating the first.

You Will:

• Transform how Remitly builds increasing the velocity of every engineering and product team at the company

• Improve the inner- and outer-loop surfaces closest to daily product development including build systems local development and client infrastructure

• Own the native mobile platform roadmap architecture build systems release infrastructure and developer tooling for the teams building Remitlys iOS and Android experiences

• Place thoughtful technical bets run them as experiments double down on whats working and retire what isnt

• Hire and develop senior managers principal engineers and builders who are equal parts platform operators and experimenters

• Hold the operational reliability and quality bar for the platforms you own

• Build a team culture that treats the rate of change in this industry as its single biggest asset

You Have:

• 8 years of technical leadership experience including 5 leading multiple teams

• History building and operating platforms and tooling that engineers actually use and prefer

• Experience hiring and developing senior engineering managers and principal engineers

• Track record leading native mobile platform organizations iOS and Android including release build and platform experience investments at scale

• Concrete examples of moving your team or yourself ahead of a major industry shift rather than catching up after the fact

• Comfort holding a thoughtful technical opinion in a room of executives and translating business strategy into technical bets and back

• Fluency with the current generation of AI-native developer tooling and ideas about what comes next that go beyond use the tools more

• Range: you can move from a flaky test in CI to a platform thesis without dropping either

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $240000 - $300000. 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

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 Companys 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.