Remitly
Financial Services
PrincipalEngineer,VerificationPlatform
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“Principal Engineer, Verification Platform at Remitly. Skills: Verification platform architecture, Platformization of services, Developer experience, Reliability, Auditability, Scale. Define the architecture and long-term technical vision for Remitly's verification and compliance platform services. Lead the platformization of existing verification services”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure verification and compliance platform services can serve the needs of multiple products and markets; Build reusable, well-documented platform capabilities that product teams can confidently build on; Ensure we build for correctness, auditability, and scale in a heavily regulated environment; Translate evolving regulatory requirements into sound, scalable technical solutions; Elevating the overall caliber of engineering decision-making
Industry & Context.
Challenging problems find solutions faster
In-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of principal-level technical scope and organizational impact, Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale including command of reliability, availability, and performance trade-offs, Proven experience building developer-facing APIs and internal platform services, with a genuine appreciation for developer experience and platform ergonomics, Prior experience as part of an internal platform or infrastructure team — understands the unique dynamics of building for internal developer customers, including adoption, versioning, and migration, Hands-on experience with identity, authentication and authorization systems – IAM, OAuth, KYC pipelines, or similar verification and access control domains, Ability to lead through influence across multiple teams without direct authority, driving alignment on complex, cross-functional technical decisions
What You'll Do.
Define the architecture and long-term technical vision for Remitly's verification and compliance platform services
Lead the platformization of existing verification services
Redesign systems built around our remittance product into reusable
well-documented platform capabilities
Raise the bar for the design of APIs and service contracts
Establish and champion engineering standards for how compliance controls are designed
Personally take on the hardest
highest-risk technical problems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with Product Management, compliance stakeholders, and legal; Drive alignment across engineering, product, and compliance teams; Influence product teams to adopt platform services correctly; Mentor and actively develop senior engineers within the verification org; Serve as a technical role model across the organization
Communication Scope
Clear documentation; Active technical partnership
Full Job Description
_**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:** We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Verification organization who will lead the teams responsible for the full trust and safety stack that makes Remitly's mission possible. This includes identity verification, authentication and authorization, compliance controls, transaction monitoring, and the customer data platform that power it all. Beyond owning these core systems, our organization is the internal platform that enables product teams across Remitly to build compliance controls into their new products at scale. As we expand into new markets and launch new financial services, the work of platformizing our verification and compliance capabilities involves evolving services originally built around our core remittance product into a truly scalable, reusable platform is the most consequential engineering challenge we face. This is a senior individual contributor role operating across a medium-sized engineering organization of 20–50 engineers. You will be the technical anchor for the verification org through the setting architectu
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