Software Engineer, Value Send

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the High Value Send Experience team, you will build the systems that earn the trust of Remitly's high value senders. These customers move large transfers for real estate, education, long‑term investments, and other major milestones across borders. This full‑stack role spans customer‑facing web and mobile experiences and deep partnership with foundational teams across identity, trust, money movement, pricing, and more.

You will partner with product, design, and engineering peers to define what it means to earn customer trust on their most consequential transfers and report to the Engineering Manager for the team.

• Operate AI‑natively because it empowers one person to outship a team of ten.
• Champion the customer experience by using customer signal, product instincts, and data to inform technical decisions and translate high value senders’ needs into the systems that serve them.
• Own technical design and architecture for complex systems that power the High Value Send experience, breaking down ambiguous, greenfield problems into clear technical strategies and delivering 0‑to‑1 product experiences.
• Raise the bar for delivering reliable, observable, and scalable systems across web, mobile, and backend services that meet strict availability and latency SLOs for the customer flows where trust matters most.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, and partner engineering teams to translate goals into scalable technical solutions for a diverse global customer base.
• Drive an engineering culture of excellence by mentoring teammates, influencing technical decision making, upholding architecture standards, and advocating for best practices in coding, testing, and system design as the team grows.

• Use AI tools in your own software development workflow to reimagine software delivery, leveraging agents that act as force‑multipliers and drafting or iterating on technical specs, prototypes, or concepts using Claude Code.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a record of building and operating systems end‑to‑end.
• Expertise building customer‑facing experiences at product scale with Type Script, React, and native mobile development (iOS/Android, React Native). Expertise in one or more modern backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python, and a record of delivering production‑quality code.
• Experience designing and building distributed, large‑scale domains with architecture segmentation that enables the next level of product scale.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including familiarity with managed services.
• Bonus:
  Experience in Fin Tech, payments, or other regulated industries where reliability, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000–$260,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in the company and equity is part of the total compensation plan. Medical benefits and other financial benefits will be disclosed by the recruiter.

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401(k) 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

Driving Innovation, Together:
Remitly fosters dynamic in‑person collaboration, requiring an in‑office presence of at least 50% of the time monthly for most corporate team members, typically three days a week. Managers can adjust expectations based on team needs. These intentional in‑office moments deepen relationships, fuel creativity, and ensure impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.