Staff Software Engineer, USA Regional Experience Team
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. Remitly's US and Canada Regional Experience teams grow the remittance send business by improving the customer experience across the moments that matter most. Engineers on these teams apply a full-stack skillset to the customer challenges most critical for growing Remitly's US and Canada send business. This Staff Engineer will work across both regional teams, setting the technical direction engineers build on. The US team has ambitious plans targeting Latin America and other critical receive regions, alongside Canada's growth priorities in Asia, which this hire will help drive across both regions.
Requirements
- Strong computer science, web, and native app fundamentals, and a command of design patterns and distributed-systems concepts.
- 10+ years of software development experience, including leading large, multi-team initiatives end to end.
- Advanced expertise in one or more of TypeScript, JavaScript, Kotlin, Java, or Go.
- 4+ years of React or React Native development experience.
- Experience leading team and cross-team design reviews, and designing for extensibility.
- Experience using AI throughout the software development lifecycle, and helping others apply it well.
- Excellent collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing across team boundaries.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and architecture of the US and Canada regional experiences - from customer-facing web and mobile surfaces to the services and integrations they depend on - taking the lead on large, cross-team initiatives.
- Partner with product, design, analytics, and engineering leaders across both regions to shape roadmaps.
- Advise domain-level planning and lead design reviews across the regional teams.
- Make AI-native engineering a durable practice across the teams: set the bar, own the teams' automation as a maintained portfolio, and extend those standards to teams we work closely with.
- Evolve engineering excellence standards (reliability, observability, security, quality) and resolve the long-standing problems that limit scale before they become bottlenecks.
- Raise the engineering bar across both regions by mentoring engineers at multiple levels through design and code reviews, and expanding team knowledge and skills.
- Stay hands-on across TypeScript, React Native, Java/Kotlin, and Go; set the standard in code review.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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