Senior Engineer Manager

• Hire, coach, and develop engineers. Set clear expectations, manage performance, and build a team that reflects Remitly's values.
• Own the technical strategy and lead complex architecture changes across teams. Modernize transfer APIs and data models so customers can provide information in different sequences, with consistent validation in backend services.
• Guide the move from separate regional implementations to configurable workflows, with backend services managing progress and determining the next step across mobile, web, conversational, and partner experiences.
• Partner with infrastructure and domain teams to build reusable components and development tools that help other teams deliver complete customer journeys.
• Improve reliability through monitoring, automated testing, and simulations that help engineering, quality assurance, and product teams identify issues before release.
• Work with Product, Design, and Analytics to set priorities and measurable goals, including faster transfer submission, lower latency, and faster experimentation.
• Own delivery, staffing, and quarterly planning. Coordinate dependencies, clarify ownership, and resolve priorities with partner teams and engineering leaders.
• Champion responsible use of AI coding tools to improve productivity, including generating workflow code from structured specifications, with appropriate review and validation.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of full-stack systems, API design, and client-server interactions.
• 5+ years of recent experience hiring and managing engineering teams, including coaching and performance management.
• Experience leading architecture changes in a large codebase shared by multiple teams, such as separating tightly coupled components, introducing configuration-driven workflows, or moving business logic to backend services.
• Expertise in a backend or full-stack language such as Go, Kotlin, Java, or TypeScript, and experience building secure, scalable systems using cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
• Sound judgment in applying AI to software development and helping teams adopt AI tools safely and effectively. Experience applying AI to product features is a plus.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience. A master's degree is preferred.

• Experience with mobile and web architecture, including React Native or React, server-driven user interfaces, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience building software development kits, frameworks, or internal platforms used by other engineering teams.
• Experience in payments, fintech, or another regulated industry where customers rely on accurate, secure services.
• Experience running experiments at scale using A/B tests and feature flags.

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000-$260,000. In the U.S., 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:

• 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

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. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. 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.