Director of Engineering, Money Platform

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Category: Engineering
Job ID: R_106553
Job Type: Regular

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:

Every Remitly transfer matters. It may be rent, school fees, medical bills, a gift, or support for family back home. Our job is to get that money where it's going, safely and without delay. Money Platform is the foundation behind that promise: the systems that receive, safeguard, move, pay out, and orchestrate every transfer.

We're hiring a Director of Engineering for Money Platform to lead it into its next chapter, with capabilities that compose into compelling products and help teams move quickly, safely, and independently. You'll measure success by how much they can build on the platform without you in the room.

The builders who depend on the platform are changing. They're engineers working more and more with agents, and over time they'll be agents composing money movement directly. Designing for that future is a core part of the role.

You'll set direction, grow the leaders and principal engineers on the team, and stay close enough to the work to engage your strongest engineers as a peer. You'll also be fluent enough in the business to move between a technical decision and a customer outcome.

You Will:

Treat the teams who build on the platform as your customers. Give them clear contracts and a developer experience clean enough that they integrate once on their own
Ship platform capabilities on a steady rhythm that product teams can feel, and make that rhythm something the team is known for
Hold the operational, reliability, and correctness bar for systems that move customers' hard-earned money
Be the technical leader your strongest engineers want to work for. Earn credibility with principal, staff, and senior engineers; go deep when it counts; and grow the managers and principals who will lead this platform next

You Have:

8+ years of technical leadership experience, including 5+ leading multiple teams
History building and operating platforms or large distributed systems that other teams choose. Experience with payments or financial systems is a big plus
The technical depth to engage principal and staff engineers as a peer, and to step in when a hard problem needs you
Comfort holding a clear technical opinion in a room of executives, and moving between business strategy and technical bets in both directions
A point of view on what an agentic world means for a platform like this, and how you would build for it. Not a slogan about using AI more

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $240,000 – $300,000. In the U.S., 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:

Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education 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.

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:

Every Remitly transfer matters. It may be rent, school fees, medical bills, a gift, or support for family back home. Our job is to get that money where it's going, safely and without delay. Money Platform is the foundation behind that promise: the systems that receive, safeguard, move, pay out, and orchestrate every transfer.

We're hiring a Director of Engineering for Money Platform to lead it into its next chapter, with capabilities that compose into compelling products and help teams move quickly, safely, and independently. You'll measure success by how much they can build on the platform without you in the room.

The builders who depend on the platform are changing. They're engineers working more and more with agents, and over time they'll be agents composing money movement directly. Designing for that future is a core part of the role.

You'll set direction, grow the leaders and principal engineers on the team, and stay close enough to the work to engage your strongest engineers as a peer. You'll also be fluent enough in the business to move between a technical decision and a customer outcome.

You Will:

Treat the teams who build on the platform as your customers. Give them clear contracts and a developer experience clean enough that they integrate once on their own
Ship platform capabilities on a steady rhythm that product teams can feel, and make that rhythm something the team is known for
Hold the operational, reliability, and correctness bar for systems that move customers' hard-earned money
Be the technical leader your strongest engineers want to work for. Earn credibility with principal, staff, and senior engineers; go deep when it counts; and grow the managers and principals who will lead this platform next

You Have:

8+ years of technical leadership experience, including 5+ leading multiple teams
History building and operating platforms or large distributed systems that other teams choose. Experience with payments or financial systems is a big plus
The technical depth to engage principal and staff engineers as a peer, and to step in when a hard problem needs you
Comfort holding a clear technical opinion in a room of executives, and moving between business strategy and technical bets in both directions
A point of view on what an agentic world means for a platform like this, and how you would build for it. Not a slogan about using AI more

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $240,000 – $300,000. In the U.S., 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:

Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education 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.

What our Remitlians say

Evelyne Kuo

Program Manager - Technical

On the Security & Privacy team, I reimagine what’s possible by going beyond traditional compliance to create a culture where security is part of everyone’s day-to-day — through programs like our champion network, engaging training sessions, and company-wide awareness events that make security approachable and empowering.”

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Amara Agbo

Software Development Engineer II

To me, reimagining what’s possible means constantly learning new technologies and applying cutting-edge solutions to build localized systems that scale across currencies, countries, and regulations. The challenges we solve at Remitly don’t just strengthen our platform — they expand financial access for millions of people worldwide. That’s what makes the work both exciting and impactful.”

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Rosa Castellon Herrera

Senior Team Manager - QA

Stand for excellence means to me always raising the bar, pushing through discomfort, to deliver our best to our teams and customers every time. We come together as a team to share ideas to develop a rubric that helps us deliver impactful results.”

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Stephanie Cameron

Senior Product Manager

On the product team at Remitly, I’m trusted to make decisions that drive real impact—not just for my team, but for the business and our customers. I’m encouraged to take ownership of problems even when they’re outside my immediate scope, to speak up, and to bring the right people together to solve them. Lately, that’s meant working on real-time FX and funding tools that support our treasury team in lowering transaction costs—so we can pass those savings on to our customers. That trust and cross-team collaboration make it easy to stay focused on what really matters in the long run.”

What our Remitlians say

Nadav Yekutiel

Senior Manager - Analytics

At Remitly, diving deep has meant pushing past easy answers to truly understand what our customers need. I’ve seen our analytics teams uncover insights that weren’t obvious at first glance — like identifying hidden friction points in the customer journey that, once solved, improved both experience and trust. This commitment to going beyond the surface makes our recommendations stronger, and it’s a big part of how we deliver meaningful impact across the business.”