Principal Engineer - Pricing Platform

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 lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders

About the Role:

Remitly is building a real-time pricing platform that sets optimal prices for our customers across 5,300+ corridors. As a Principal Engineer on the Pricing Platform team, you will design and build the foundational systems that power how Remitly prices its product globally, from data infrastructure and cost modeling to optimization engines and production serving. You will work on a small, senior team and have significant influence over architecture, technology choices, and delivery. You will report to the Head of Pricing Platform and work from our Seattle office.

You Will:

• Set architectural direction: Lead the design and evolution of the Pricing Platform — spanning data infrastructure, cost modeling, market data ingestion, optimization, and production serving — ensuring solutions are scalable, low-latency, and fault-tolerant.

• Drive large-scale initiatives: Own the end-to-end build of critical platform components, including FX market feeds, per-transaction cost models, optimization engines, guardrail and fallback systems, and internal tooling. Plan and sequence delivery for speed and quality.

• Advance engineering excellence: Define and uphold standards for observability, reliability, and operational excellence across the platform. Build anomaly detection, kill switches, and confidence-based fallback chains into production systems from day one.

• Lead cross-functional collaboration: Partner with Finance, Treasury, Product, and Analytics to translate complex pricing requirements into technical solutions. Represent engineering in strategic discussions with senior leadership.

• Mentor and grow the team: Elevate the engineering bar through rigorous design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship. Model technical depth and clear communication for peers across the organization.

• Evaluate and evolve technology: Assess build-vs.-buy decisions for components across the stack — from ML pipeline frameworks to serving infrastructure — and guide the team toward the most effective long-term choices.

You Have:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a staff or principal-level role, including significant time building data-intensive production systems.

• Strong Python fluency and experience building ML pipelines or optimization systems end-to-end, from data ingestion and model development through serving and monitoring.

• Proven track record designing and operating distributed systems that make real-time or near-real-time decisions at scale, with strong fundamentals in system design, data modeling, and performance optimization.

• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and a track record of building reliable, high-availability services in production environments.

• Experience reviewing large-scale system designs, articulating security best practices, and driving consistency in how software is tested, logged, monitored, deployed, and maintained.

• Demonstrated ability to lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives, manage dependencies, and influence technical strategy with a high degree of autonomy.

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

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $240,000–$300,000. 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 and travel benefits

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 consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher 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.

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 E-Verify Employer

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