Backend Data Engineer

Job Description:

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

About our Team

The Marketing Technology (AdTech) stack powers our marketing acquisition and retention strategy. Our current marketing stack consists of data pipelines that send data from Remitly to our ad partners and receive data from them. Team contributes to and improves an integrated marketing technology stack encompassing AdTech, data instrumentation, lifecycle tech, and marketing automation. They will enhance systems for optimizing ad spend, refine data-driven decision-making processes, improve targeted customer engagement capabilities, and expand marketing task automation. Their work will focus on evolving the existing ecosystem to further boost marketing efficiency and effectiveness.

Our technology stack includes GoLang, Spark (Scala), AWS (with emphasis on SQS and SNS), Lakehouse architecture, SQLMesh. We’re seeking software engineers who excel at building robust applications and can adapt to new technologies as needed. Strong fundamentals in software development are crucial, while specific experience with our stack is a plus but not required.

The position reports to the AdTech engineering manager, who is locally based.

You Will:

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that transfer marketing signals between Remitly and ad partners (Meta, Google, TikTok, etc.)

• Implement and evolve features within our Lakehouse architecture to support attribution, audience segmentation, and ad spend optimization

• Write clean, efficient, and well-tested code in SQL, GoLang and/or Spark (Scala), with an eye toward scalability and reliability

• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and marketing stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Contribute to system design discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions across the AdTech stack

• Participate actively in agile ceremonies — sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives

• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline health, proactively identifying and resolving data quality or latency issues

• Stay current with AdTech industry trends (e.g. privacy-preserving measurement, cookieless tracking) and propose improvements accordingly

• Take end-to-end ownership of tasks — from scoping and design to delivery and monitoring — with minimal supervision

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience

• 3+ years of professional software engineering, with a strong data engineering focus or significant hands-on work with data systems

• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Go, Java, Kotlin, C#, Python); hands-on Go or Scala experience is a strong plus

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data pipeline design, and event-driven architectures (experience with SQS/SNS or similar messaging systems is a bonus)

• Familiarity with SQL and working with large-scale data platforms or Lakehouse environments - a background as a Data Engineer, or close collaboration with data teams, is a significant advantage

• Grounding in software engineering fundamentals — design patterns, algorithms, testing, and code maintainability

• Clear demonstration of a product and delivery mindset. Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills, confidently handling ambiguity and making informed trade-offs to deliver value efficiently

• Ability to work effectively across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders

• Bonus: prior exposure to AdTech/Marketing concepts such as conversion APIs, pixel tracking, identity resolution, or campaign attribution

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Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically zł 245,000 - zł 275,000 per annum. In Poland, 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.

Remitly Poland applies increased tax deductible costs (KUP) to remuneration earned by certain qualifying employees (to the extent an employee will be involved in the creation of the software as an "author") for the transfer of copyrights, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act.

Our Benefits:

• Equity in the company – RSUs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• 26 days paid holiday + additional company days off
• Royalties (KUP)
• Hybrid working model (our office is in the Kraków City Centre)
• Commute allowance
• Health/Dental Coverage – LUX MED VIP for employee and family
• Life Insurance
• Travel Insurance
• Pluxee Lunch Card/Multisport Card
• Education Budget
• Mental Health program for employee
• Family planning program
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
   

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. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

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.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.