Senior Software Developer Engineer (SDE 3) - Transaction Monitoring Team

Remitly•Burnaby, BC

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

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: You'll own the technical direction of systems like our STAR detection engine and Customer Risk Rating pipeline. You will build and contribute to detection and automated filing of suspicious activity reports across jurisdictions, risk scoring systems for all Remitly Products. The team works shoulder-to-shoulder with the Compliance team, Data and Risk Analytics, and collaborates closely with the Product team to translate product ideas into scalable technical systems. You will report to the Engineering Manager in Vancouver. Why This Role This isn't "move fast and break things." Transaction monitoring is one of the few engineering domains where correctness has legal consequences — a missed report or a false negative has real-world regulatory impact. If you want to solve hard technical problems at scale where the quality of your work directly matters, this team is a compelling place to do it.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience.
7+ years of backend services development and domain ownership.
Proficiency in Go, Kotlin or Java preferred; strong engineers from other backend languages (Javascript, C#, Python) who are willing to ramp on Kotlin are welcome.
Experience with microservice, or distributed systems based on AWS, or similar cloud solutions.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals — you've designed systems that handle scale, failure, and eventually-consistent data.
Data fluency — comfortable writing complex SQL, working with data pipelines, and partnering with analytics teams on data marts and reporting.
Experience working directly with product and cross-team stakeholders to achieve outcomes
Experience owning and operating systems end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Design and build risk controls using the latest industry standards, develop backend services that reinforce verification used across Remitly.
Ship reliable, observable, and scalable systems that meet strict availability and latency SLOs for customer-facing flows.
Partner with Product, Risk, and Compliance to translate regulatory and operational requirements into robust technical solutions.
Own services end-to-end: architecture, implementation, testing, on-call, and continuous improvement.
Contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, documentation, and operational runbooks.
Lead technical discussions, provide mentorship to junior engineers, and advocate for best practices in coding, testing, and system design.