Remitly
StaffEngineer,CoreTransferExperience
“Staff Engineer, Core Transfer Experience at Remitly. Skills: technical leadership, architecture, distributed systems, consumer-facing products at scale, AI tools. Drive technical strategy. Advise on domain-level strategic planning and roadmap prioritization for the Core Transfer Experience”
What You'll Achieve.
delivering an experience that is fast, reliable, and trusted; removing friction at every step of the journey; deliver the right business outcomes; deliver faster; achieving the highest cost-utilization and efficiency out of computing resources
Industry & Context.
reason across the entire customer from the interfaces customers interact with to the distributed systems that orchestrate each transfer; resolve root causes of architecture scaling problems, latency, data quality, and similar issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of software engineering experience, at least 3+ years in a staff-level role, significant experience building and shipping consumer-facing products at scale, Demonstrated technical breadth across the customer experience stack, led initiatives that required owning decisions across multiple layers (e. g. , customer-facing surfaces, APIs, backend services, data) and understanding how choices in one layer affect the others, Advanced expertise in one or more software languages (e. g. , Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar), selecting the most effective algorithms and data structures for your problem domain, Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, fundamentals in system design, data modeling, and performance optimization, Experience leading team design reviews, understanding the legacy of technology decisions, including how to limit solutions that pose serious consequences or unnecessary complexity, Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, estimate project timelines, interact with stakeholders with a high degree of autonomy, Experience with observability, reliability engineering, and ensuring high availability in mission-critical production systems, Actively incorporates AI tools into their engineering practice: you use AI tools effectively in your own work, understand how they shift team velocity and estimates, and can help others apply them well, A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Drive technical strategy, Advise on domain-level strategic planning and roadmap prioritization for the Core Transfer Experience, Lead team-level design reviews, ensure proposed solutions the right layers of the customer experience, align with Remitly's long-term architecture plans, and deliver the right business outcomes, Lead large-scale initiatives, Serve as the technical strategist for the remittance experience owning the architecture and delivery of both customer-facing transfer experiences and the foundational platform capabilities that regional and product teams depend on to serve their customers, leading major launches across the transfer journey (ex.
new product flows), ensuring the platform is extensible, reliable, and well-abstracted enough for other teams to build on confidently, Plan and sequence work across both dimensions to deliver faster, frame build-vs.
-buy decisions, balance the desire to write new software with the reality of maintaining it, Actively contribute to the systems you help through hands-on analysis, meaningful code reviews, and direct contributions, Use your breadth across the customer experience to catch issues that specialists working in a single layer might miss, Contribute to the evolution of Remitly's Foundational Excellence standards across reliability, observability, security, and quality, Proactively automate, eliminate, and streamline team processes, mitigate long-term risks caused by complexity, Champion effective use of AI tools across the shaping how we build, estimate, and maintain software as AI capabilities evolve, Actively mentor SDEs across the team, drive efforts to expand team knowledge and skills, lead training modules or learning sessions, Guide the team in applying AI tools effectively as a force multiplier, Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring, Build relationships across engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and Operations to deliver on shared goals, Increase SDE effectiveness to amplify their impact, elicit opposing views to drive the best decisions, Implement methods for achieving the highest cost-utilization and efficiency out of computing resources powering the transfer experience, Evaluate external technologies for commercial use, resolve root causes of architecture scaling problems, latency, data quality, and similar issues.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partnering across product, design, and engineering; Build relationships across engineering, Product, Design, Analytics, and Operations to deliver on shared goals; Increase SDE effectiveness to amplify their impact; elicit opposing views to drive the best decisions
Process & Methodology
roadmap prioritization, estimate project timelines, Plan and sequence work
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