Senior Software Development Engineer- Receiver Products
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Seattle, OR - USA
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Job Summary
Job Description:
About RemitlyRemitly is on a mission to transform the lives of immigrants and their families by providing the most trusted financial services on the planet. Since 2011 weve grown to serve millions of customers across 170 countries and were just getting started. Every day our work moves money and meaning across borders helping people build better lives for themselves and the ones they love.
The Receiver Products team is Remitlys next frontier. Were building financial services that dont stop at delivery were creating the tools that let receivers save spend and thrive in their home countries. Youll help build how hundreds of millions of people around the world access and use money.
The Role
As a Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3) on the Receiver Products team youll design and build core services for a new generation of financial products aimed at the people who receive remittances. Youll take well-scoped ambiguous problems from a new savings feature to a new disbursement integration and turn them into reliable secure production-grade systems used by millions of people.
This is a strong fit for an engineer who wants real ownership: youll drive the technical design for significant pieces of the receiver product surface working closely with a Principal Engineer your engineering manager and product partners while mentoring other engineers and raising the bar for the teams technical practices.
What Youll Do
Design & Build Receiver Financial Services
Design and deliver backend services and features that power receivers ability to save and spend money in their home countries from account structures to transaction flows.
Write clear technical designs and RFCs for your own projects incorporating feedback from senior and principal engineers.
Make sound day-to-day technical decisions on service boundaries data models and API contracts within an established architecture.
Integrate with the Remitly Money-Movement Platform
Build integrations between receiver-side capabilities and Remitlys global money-movement infrastructure disbursements FX liquidity and compliance systems.
Ensure safe consistent hand-offs between send-side and receive-side flows with strong data consistency and auditability.
Follow and help refine platform standards for cross-service communication idempotency and failure handling.
Build with Security & Compliance in Mind
Apply security and compliance requirements from the start partnering with Compliance and Security Engineering on AML KYC and local regulatory needs.
Implement least-privilege access encryption at rest and in transit and audit trails as standard practice.
Participate in threat-modeling exercises and resolve vulnerabilities in the services you own.
Operate at Scale
Build services that perform reliably under real production load and scale gracefully as the receiver base grows.
Help define and meet SLOs and error budgets for the services you own.
Carry on-call responsibilities write runbooks and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve the teams operational practices.
Grow the Team
Mentor SDE1/SDE2 engineers through code review pairing and design feedback.
Actively participate in design reviews both giving and receiving feedback and help raise the technical bar on your team.
Partner closely with your engineering manager and product manager to turn ambiguous problems into executable technical plans.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
5 years of professional software engineering experience including designing and operating production distributed systems.
Track record of owning a project end-to-end from technical design through launch and operation.
Solid backend engineering fundamentals: service-oriented or event-driven architectures RESTful or async APIs and relational or distributed databases.
Working knowledge of security and compliance considerations in regulated or sensitive-data environments (fintech banking payments or healthcare a plus).
Comfortable collaborating across engineering product and operations to get things done.
Clear written and verbal communication you can explain a technical decision to both engineers and non-engineers.
Nice to Have
Experience building financial products for emerging markets (LATAM Sub-Saharan Africa South/Southeast Asia or similar).
Exposure to payments infrastructure: card rails ACH real-time payment networks mobile money or digital wallets.
Familiarity with AML/KYC frameworks PCI-DSS or SOC 2 in a software context.
Experience integrating with partner financial institutions fintechs or licensed payment processors via API.
Interest in growing toward broader technical leadership mentoring RFC authorship cross-team design work.
Why Remitly
Mission that matters: every line of code you write moves real money for real families.
Meaningful ownership: ship features and services end-to-end on a new fast-moving product surface.
Global scale: build for users across dozens of countries with real distributed-systems challenges.
Strong fundamentals: build on top of a proven high-reliability platform with mature engineering practices.
Growth path: close partnership with senior and principal engineers with a clear track toward Staff-level scope.
Competitive compensation: salary equity and comprehensive benefits details shared during the recruitment process.
Flexible work: hybrid model with offices in Seattle London and other global hubs.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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Senior IC
About Company
Transfer money internationally to 170+ countries and 100+ currencies with no hidden fees. Receive funds securely using convenient delivery options.
