Senior Software Development Engineer, Recipient & Payment Experience

Remitly•Burnaby, BC

1d•CA$152,000 - CA$190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. RPX 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. 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. 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.

Requirements

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).
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.
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.

Nice To Haves

Payments or fintech experience is a nice-to-have, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.