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're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Scout team—Remitly's agentic AI team responsible for building AI-powered experiences that help customers send money, solve problems, and complete tasks wherever they are—whether on Remitly's website, mobile app, or third-party platforms like WhatsApp.
As a member of the Scout team, you'll collaborate across teams to enable money transfer functionality on external platforms and help other domains by providing them with a robust conversational AI platform. You'll be involved in prototyping, validating, and scaling new AI-driven solutions.
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional partners including UX, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing, as well as most platform engineering teams, giving you exposure to a wide range of technical and business challenges.
You Will:
Gather and analyze requirements.
Design, code, and test APIs, data storage solutions, and integration with third-party services. Identify and fix issues or bugs.
Work with the team to quickly resolve problems and maintain system stability.
Collaborate with teams, including product/program managers and marketing, compliance and legal specialists.
Guide the team's technical strategy while leading, shipping features and systems.
Promote engineering excellence by delivering well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions, improving team processes, and contributing to cross-team technical designs.
Enhance team talent through mentoring, code review, interviewing, and ramping new hires.
You Have:
A BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of professional experience
Experience building and optimizing large-scale web architectures.
Knowledge of backend programming languages such as Java or Golang
Proven experience software development practices, system design, software design patterns, and algorithms
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $148,000-$185,000. 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 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.
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.
We are committed to nondiscrimination across our global organization and in all of our business operations. Employment is determined based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including a woman's potential to get pregnant, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability (including the use of a trained dog guide or service animal), HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.
Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
