Principal Software Engineer, Value Send

Position: Principal Software Engineer, High Value Send
Job Description:

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

We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

The High Value Senders team helps customers move larger sums of money across borders with confidence. These transfers represent significant life decisions, from buying a home and funding education, to supporting investments and long-term financial goals. Our scope spans the high-value send experience, customer growth, and new product work streams such as wealth building. We partner closely with Core Transfer Experience and shared platform teams to turn complex financial journeys into clear, dependable experiences.

As Principal Engineer for High Value Senders, you will own technology strategy and architecture across the HVS domain. You will partner with engineering, product, design, marketing and analytics to define how we earn customer trust on their most consequential transfers. You will solve the domain's hardest technical problems, shape how systems are divided and owned across teams, and align decisions with Remitly's long-term architecture and business goals.

This full-stack role spans customer-facing web and mobile experiences, backend systems, and deep partnership with foundational teams across identity and trust, money movement, pricing, and Core Transfer Experience. You will turn ambiguous, greenfield opportunities into new products while evolving shared systems safely. You will remain hands-on through system analysis, meaningful code contributions, and reviews, applying your expertise where it most increases the organization's impact.

Your success will include stronger technical leaders, more autonomous teams, and durable improvements in customer trust and engineering effectiveness.

Help customers move money for life's most significant moments. Build new products and the technical foundations that make every high-value transfer feel clear, dependable, and worthy of their trust.

You Will:

Build New Products:
Create new HVS propositions. Enable teams to test and launch 0-to-1 experiences with measurable customer outcomes, extensible foundations and safe rollout controls.

Lead AI Adoption:
Operate AI-natively and evaluate emerging capabilities for step-change improvements in customer experience and software delivery. Establish domain-level AI accountability: appropriate use boundaries, evaluation methods, and review standards for correctness, security, and maintainability.

Set Technical Vision and Strategy for High Value Senders:
Own HVS technology strategy and architecture, connecting core experiences, customer growth, and emerging propositions. Use customer signals, product judgment, and data to guide investments and technical decisions.

Build the Foundations for High Value Transfers:
Define architecture across web, mobile, and backend services for high-value transfer journeys. Segment systems and ownership so teams can build independently while delivering a coherent…