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Senior Software Development Engineer

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New Westminster, BC
Senior level
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New Westminster, BC
Senior level
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, code, and test APIs and storage solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance services for small businesses.
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Job Description:

Remitly's vision is to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders. Since 2011, we have been tirelessly delivering on our promises to people who send money around the world. Today, we are reimagining global financial services and building products that extend beyond traditional barriers to give customers access to more of the services they need, no matter where they call home. Join over 2,700 employees worldwide who are growing their careers with purpose and connection with our customers while having a positive impact on millions of people around the globe.

About the Role:

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Scout team—Remitly's agentic AI team responsible for building AI-powered experiences that help customers send money, solve problems, and complete tasks wherever they are—whether on Remitly's website, mobile app, or third-party platforms like WhatsApp.

As a member of the Scout team, you'll collaborate across teams to enable money transfer functionality on external platforms and help other domains by providing them with a robust conversational AI platform. You'll be involved in prototyping, validating, and scaling new AI-driven solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional partners including UX, Legal, Compliance, and Marketing, as well as most platform engineering teams, giving you exposure to a wide range of technical and business challenges.

You Will:

  • Gather and analyze requirements.
  • Design, code, and test APIs, data storage solutions, and integration with third-party services. Identify and fix issues or bugs.
  • Work with the team to quickly resolve problems and maintain system stability.
  • Collaborate with teams, including product/program managers and marketing, compliance and legal specialists.
  • Guide the team's technical strategy while leading, shipping features and systems.
  • Promote engineering excellence by delivering well-tested, observable, documented, efficient, scalable, and resilient solutions, improving team processes, and contributing to cross-team technical designs.
  • Enhance team talent through mentoring, code review, interviewing, and ramping new hires.

You Have:

  • A BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of professional experience
  • Experience building and optimizing large-scale web architectures.
  • Knowledge of backend programming languages such as Java or Golang
  • Proven experience software development practices, system design, software design patterns, and algorithms
  • Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $148,000-$185,000. In Canada, 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

  • Four weeks vacation
  • Health Benefits
  • Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
  • RRSP plan with company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Life Insurance & Disability
  • Continuing education and travel benefits

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.

Top Skills

Ci/Cd Tools
Gitlab
Go
Java
Jenkins

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