Senior Software Development Engineer, Recipient & Payment Experience

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 Recipient & Payment Experience (RPX) team owns two of the most trust-critical surfaces in the Remitly product: who customers are sending money to, and how they're paying for it. From the moment a customer saves a recipient's details to the moment a payment method is validated and a transfer is initiated, RPX is responsible for making that experience fast, reliable, and worry-free — for every customer, in every corridor.

What makes RPX unique is that it operates as both a product team and a platform team. On the product side, we own the customer-facing surfaces for recipient management and pay-in flows — the forms, states, and experiences customers interact with directly. On the platform side, we own the customer domain layer: the shared APIs, data models, and services that encode how Remitly represents a remittance customer across the entire product. Getting both right — and keeping them consistent — is one of the defining engineering challenges of this role.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on RPX, you will own meaningful features end-to-end across a Go-based backend and TypeScript frontend. You will partner with product, design, and your fellow engineers to build experiences that customers trust with their most important transactions. You will report to the Engineering Manager, RPX and work in a hybrid capacity from our Burnaby, BC office.

You Will:

• Ship full-stack features end-to-end: Design, implement, test, and operate backend services (Go) and customer-facing interfaces (TypeScript) that power recipient management and pay-in experiences. Own your work from first commit to production, and take pride in the quality, reliability, and observability of what you ship.
• Build and evolve the customer domain platform: Contribute to the shared APIs, data models, and service contracts that define how Remitly represents recipients, payment methods, and customer state across the product. Balance the need for a stable, well-abstracted platform with the speed of product delivery.
• Lead features across the team: Break down complex problems into well-sequenced, parallelizable work. Provide accurate estimates, surface tradeoffs clearly, and drive your work to completion with a high degree of ownership. Partner with PM and design to make sure what gets built is the right thing — not just the specified thing.
• Raise the engineering bar: Write production-quality code and conduct meaningful code reviews. Participate actively in design reviews. Apply best practices across reliability, observability, security, and testing. Champion the effective use of AI tools in your own workflow and share what you learn with the team.
• Mentor and grow peers: Be a go-to resource for more junior engineers on the team. Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, and informal learning moments. Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring.
• Operate what you build: Participate in on-call rotations and take shared ownership of the systems your team runs in production. Proactively improve system reliability, reduce toil, and address root causes — not just symptoms.

You Have:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently design and ship production systems at scale.
• Backend engineering expertise — strong fundamentals in building, scaling, and operating distributed services. Experience with Go is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin with a genuine interest in adopting Go is also valued.
• Frontend proficiency — comfortable building customer-facing experiences in TypeScript (React or similar). You don't need to be a frontend specialist, but you should be able to own a feature across the stack without handing off at the boundary.
• Experience leading feature development across a team: breaking down work, writing technical specs, coordinating dependencies, and delivering on commitments.
• Strong fundamentals in system design — data modeling, API design, service reliability, and performance. You've made architecture decisions and understand the long-term consequences of those choices.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to team technical standards — through code review, design feedback, or direct coaching.
• Experience with observability and production operations — you know how to instrument your code, read dashboards, and debug production issues under pressure.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Payments or fintech experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $152,000 – $190,000. In Canada, Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits

• Four weeks vacation
• Health Benefits
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• RRSP plan with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Life Insurance & Disability
• Continuing education and travel benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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