Senior Software 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 lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

Remitly built its business on remittances - helping millions of people move money across borders. Now we are going broader: user wallets, stored balances, and a growing set of financial products that let customers do more than send a single transfer. Every one of those products rests on the same deceptively simple question: how much does this customer actually have, right now, in this account? Answering that correctly, at scale and under real banking regulation, is the foundation the next generation of Remitly is built on. That is what our team owns.

We are building UFA (User Financial Accounts) - Remitly's new, general-purpose platform. It is the source of truth for customer balances and the foundation for wallets, safeguarded fiat accounts, credit and lending products, promotions, and whatever the business dreams up next.

This is a rare moment to join. We are not iterating on a mature system; we are laying the foundations and taking them live. The UK is our first regulated market - the license is granted and the go-live clock is already running - with the EU and UAE close behind. You will help design the ledger primitives, the correctness and consistency guarantees, and the relevant integrations that everything else is built on, then watch them go into production in market after market.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the team you will lead the design and delivery of significant slices of the platform. You will own hard problems end to end - atomic money movement, ledger consistency, safeguarding, idempotency under failure - make the architectural calls, and be the technical point of contact across teams and, where relevant, with our internal and external partners. You will report to a Kraków-based Engineering Manager and work alongside a senior, domain-deep team.

You Will:

• Design and build the core services and APIs at the heart of UFA - the primitives that record, validate, and move customer money with strict correctness guarantees.
• Own the hard distributed-systems problems: consistency, atomicity across multi-step financial operations, idempotency, and graceful behavior under partial failure, where a bug is measured in real money.
• Take new regulated markets live. Turn licensing and safeguarding requirements into concrete platform capabilities, starting with the UK and moving into the EU and UAE.
• Break down large, cross-team initiatives into parallel workstreams and drive them from technical design through production readiness.
• Set the technical direction for your slice of the platform: make the design trade-offs, guard long-term maintainability, and keep an eye on scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Be the technical point of contact for partner teams and, where relevant, for external banking and payment partners.
• Improve through design and code reviews, and grow the engineers around you.
• Partner closely with Product and Operations to shape requirements, surface risk early, and land realistic delivery plans.

You Have:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading technical design for team-level or cross-team initiatives.
• Strong command of a backend language such as Java, Kotlin, or Go, and a track record of designing secure, scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience running production systems in the cloud (AWS or similar), including on-call for high-availability services - you have owned what you built.
• Solid grounding in relational and non-relational databases and the data-modeling trade-offs that show up at scale.
• An instinct for correctness and operational risk, and the judgment to know when it matters most.
• Experience mentoring engineers and lifting the technical quality of a team.
• Collaborated across time zones (our partner teams sit in Seattle). B2+ English.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Comfort using AI tools across the development lifecycle.

Compensation Details. Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically PLN 320,000 - PLN 360,000 gross 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.

Our Benefits:

• 26 days paid holiday & additional company days off
• Equity in the company - RSUs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Royalties (KUP)
• Employee Pension Plan (PPK)
• Open leave policy (Flexible vacation days with manager approval)
• Commuting to work expense
• Health/Dental & Coverage - LUX MED VIP for employee & family
• Life Insurance
• Mental Health & Family Planing Benefits
• Continuing education
• Equipment of your choice
• Referral bonuses

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 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.

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.

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