Staff Engineer, Core Transfer

At Remitly, we aim to give everyone the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. We deliver secure, simple, and reliable global money‑sending experiences.

The Core Transfer Experience team owns the systems and product surfaces that power frictionless cross‑border transfers for millions of Remitly customers. The team balances a dual focus: delivering a direct customer experience and building a foundational platform that regional and product teams rely on. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader who guides the end‑to‑end customer journey, shapes architecture, and raises engineering standards across multiple teams.

• Advise on domain‑level strategic planning and roadmap prioritization for the Core Transfer Experience.
• Lead team‑level design reviews and large‑scale initiatives, ensuring solutions span the right layers of the customer experience.
• Own architecture and delivery of both customer‑facing transfer experiences and foundational platform capabilities.
• Plan and sequence work across both dimensions, balancing launch velocity with platform extensibility and reliability.
• Contribute directly to the codebase through hands‑on analysis, code reviews, and meaningful implementation.
• Advance engineering excellence in reliability, observability, security, and quality, and automate team processes.
• Champion effective use of AI tools and guide the team in applying them as a force multiplier.
• Mentor and grow engineers, leading training modules and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Represent Remitly’s cultural values in interviews and hiring, and build cross‑functional relationships across engineering, product, design, analytics, and operations.
• Ensure operational excellence by optimizing cost‑utilization of computing resources, evaluating external technologies, and resolving root causes of architectural deficiencies.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a staff‑level role.
• Demonstrated experience building and shipping consumer‑facing products at scale.
• Technical breadth across the customer experience stack and ownership of decisions across multiple layers.
• Advanced expertise in one or more languages (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Type Script, or similar).
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, strong fundamentals in system design, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Experience leading design reviews, managing dependencies, estimating timelines, and interacting with stakeholders independently.
• Expertise in observability, reliability engineering, and ensuring high availability in mission‑critical production systems.
• Active use of AI tools in engineering practice and guidance for team adoption.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Base salary range: $208,000–$260,000 (U.S.). Equity is part of the total compensation plan. Additional medical benefits and financial benefits may be discussed during the hiring process.

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military, and family care leave
• Mental health and family support benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education and travel benefits

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. Employment is determined based on personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, immigration status, disability, HIV/AIDS, genetic information, or any other protected class as established by law.