Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) – Customer Data Platform

Remitly•Burnaby, BC

56d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II (SDE2) to join the Customer Data Platform team within the Identity & Trust organization. This team builds and operates the systems that manage customer data at scale. Our platform runs on AWS and supports high-throughput, high-availability services that are critical to Remitly's products and regulatory obligations. As an SDE2, you will design and build high-quality backend services and APIs across a subset of the team's systems. You will operate independently in code construction, testing, deployment, and maintenance. You will own features end-to-end, handle challenging problems with clear constraints and trade-offs, and contribute to improving system quality, reliability, and performance.

Requirements

Experience with DynamoDB or other large-scale NoSQL data stores.
Experience working on distributed systems.
Familiarity with multi-tenant or platform-oriented service design.
Familiarity with observability and operational best practices.
Experience mentoring interns or new hires.

Responsibilities

Design and implement modular, maintainable backend services and APIs.
Own features or functional areas from technical design through production support.
Contribute to design discussions and propose trade-offs for consideration.
Work with relational and non-relational databases to implement reliable, performant data access patterns.
Improve code quality, testing, deployment, logging, and monitoring practices.
Provide thoughtful code and design reviews.
Identify and mitigate obvious technical and delivery risks.
Partner with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver solutions.
Support onboarding of new engineers and contribute to a strong team culture.