Staff Engineer - New Initiatives Team

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.
The team in Israel pushes forward and aims for the stars. We hire top talents and invest in promoting their career by providing opportunities, challenges, and a great work environment that places an important emphasis on work-life balance.

About the Role:

Scale and Challenge - Build a complex mobile app that is used by millions of customers globally, handling millions of transactions every month, while delivering quickly in high quality.

The Fintech industry - An opportunity to gain deep knowledge in the Fintech industry including payments, accounting, banking systems, fraud, compliance, and much more.

Sharpen your skills - Build your craftsmanship. You will design, build, and deploy complex features in an agile environment (we are investing in our scrum process) while getting mentored by our principal engineers and team leads.

Leadership and Craftsmanship - You will have the opportunity to lead hard technical decisions and raise the bar for multiple teams, by leading complex design sessions, selecting the relevant technologies that serve our goals and connect between the business needs and our features, as we believe that any line of code should impact our business and future goals.

Be part of an A-players team - The team you are going to join consists of strong engineers, hence you will be able to leverage and improve your technical skills and grow as an engineer. Providing the right environment for our team members to grow is a core value of ours.

Purpose - Feel rewarded for developing a product for real people that brings them one step forward to financial inclusion.

We are seeking a Staff Engineer who will join the New Initiatives team.

You Will:

• Technical Leadership: use your depth and breadth of experience to lead complex, long-term, cross-team engineering efforts. In collaboration with other functional and engineering leaders, you will help create and evolve a technical strategy for new initiatives at Remitly
• New Product Development: Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other partners to conceptualize and design new features and products that enhance our B2C customer experience. Guide the innovation process and ensure understanding of our goals.
• Architecture & Design: Architect complex distributed systems, ensuring they are efficient, maintainable, and scalable. Evaluate and select appropriate tools, and frameworks to achieve team goals, by building both client and server side applications.
• Engineering Excellence: Lead by example, writing high-quality code, and providing code reviews to maintain the highest standards of software craftsmanship within the team. Promote best practices and improve software development processes.
• Be a Cultural Leader: Be a role model in upholding Remitly's cultural values and use them as a framework to mentor other engineers across the company to achieve their full potential. You will help set and hire against a high-engineering talent bar for the team.

You Have:

• 8+ years of overall software development experience including leading development of reliable, available and scalable distributed systems in production environments
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience as a technical leader on complex engineering projects with multiple stakeholders and working in partnership with Product, Design and Data.
• Experience driving and building long term technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience with multiple programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, Python, or Java. While having a deep understanding of concepts and design patterns such as DDD and TDD.
• End to end experience on client-server applications, while taking into account user experience, performance and scalability. This includes understanding of both frontend and backend technologies.
• Great online and offline communication skills, working in a multicultural environment.
• Team player who is eager to work in a fast-paced and results-driven environment and solve complex problems.
• A proactive person with a keen eye for details, who constantly wants to improve the system and grow
• Enthusiastic about building consumer-facing products with great UX and UI.
• Proved experience in building of modern distributed architecture, working with cloud services, message brokers and different database systems
• Work well in ambiguous environments

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Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Remitly. 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.

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