Senior Software Development Engineer, Recipient & Payment Experience

Remitly Canada Operations, Inc.; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 152,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Four weeks vacation

RRSP matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Remitly Canada is hiring for a senior software engineer to own end‑to‑end features on the Recipient & Payment Experience (RPX) platform. You will design and ship backend services in Go and customer‑facing interfaces in TypeScript, drive reliability, and evolve the shared domain APIs and data models.

You will lead cross‑functional work with PMs and designers, mentor teammates, and participate in on‑call rotations to ensure production health.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience and ability to design and ship production systems at scale.
• Backend engineering expertise with experience in building, scaling, and operating distributed services.
• Experience with Go is preferred; Java or Kotlin are valued as well.
• Frontend proficiency in TypeScript (React or similar) capable of owning features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Ship full‑stack features end‑to‑end: design, implement, test, and operate backend services and TS interfaces.
• Own your work from first commit to production with emphasis on reliability and observability.
• Build and evolve the customer domain platform with shared APIs and data models.
• Lead features across the team with clear estimates and tradeoffs for timely delivery.
• Partner with PM and design to ensure the right thing is built, not just the specified thing.
• Mentor peers, participate in code reviews, and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Frontend

Distributed systems

API design

System design

Mentoring

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Job description

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

The Recipient & Payment Experience (RPX) team owns two of the most trust‑critical surfaces in the Remitly product: who customers are sending money to, and how they're paying for it. From the moment a customer saves a recipient's details to the moment a payment method is validated and a transfer is initiated, RPX is responsible for making that experience fast, reliable, and worry‑free — for every customer, in every corridor. What makes RPX unique is that it operates as both a product team and a platform team. On the product side, we own the customer‑facing surfaces for recipient management and pay‑in flows — the forms, states, and experiences customers interact with directly. On the platform side, we own the customer domain layer: the shared APIs, data models, and services that encode how Remitly represents a remittance customer across the entire product. Getting both right — and keeping them consistent — is one of the defining engineering challenges of this role.

You Will

Ship full‑stack features end‑to‑end: Design, implement, test, and operate backend services (Go) and customer‑facing interfaces (TypeScript) that power recipient management and pay‑in experiences.

Own your work from first commit to production, and take pride in the quality, reliability, and observability of what you ship.

Build and evolve the customer domain platform: Contribute to the shared APIs, data models, and service contracts that define how Remitly represents recipients, payment methods, and customer state across the product. Balance the need for a stable, well‑abstracted platform with the speed of product delivery.

Lead features across the team: Break down complex problems into well‑sequenced, parallelizable work. Provide accurate estimates, surface tradeoffs clearly, and drive your work to completion with a high degree of ownership.

Partner with PM and design to make sure what gets built is the right thing — not just the specified thing.

Raise the engineering bar: Write production‑quality code and conduct meaningful code reviews. Participate actively in design reviews. Apply best practices across reliability, observability, security, and testing. Champion the effective use of AI tools in your own workflow and share what you learn with the team.

Mentor and grow peers: Be a go‑to resource for more junior engineers on the team. Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, and informal learning moments. Represent Remitly's cultural values in interviews and hiring.

Operate what you build: Participate in on‑call rotations and take shared ownership of the systems your team runs in production. Proactively improve system reliability, reduce toil, and address root causes — not just symptoms.

You Have

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ability to independently design and ship production systems at scale.
• Backend engineering expertise — strong fundamentals in building, scaling, and operating distributed services.
• Experience with Go is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin with a genuine interest in adopting Go is also valued.
• Frontend proficiency — comfortable building customer‑facing experiences in TypeScript (React or similar). You don't need to be a frontend specialist, but you should be able to own a feature across the stack without handing off at the boundary.
• Experience leading feature development across a team: breaking down work, writing technical specs, coordinating dependencies, and delivering on commitments.
• Strong fundamentals in system design — data modeling, API design, service reliability, and performance. You've made architecture decisions and understand the long‑term consequences of those choices.
• A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to team technical standards — through code review, design feedback, or direct coaching.
• Experience with observability and production operations — you know how to instrument your code, read dashboards, and debug production issues under pressure.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Payments or fintech experience is a nice‑to‑have, not a requirement.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is $152,000 - $190,000.

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.

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

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.

Under the Company's current hybrid‑work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid‑work expectations from time to time. 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 a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over 170 countries around the world. Remitly helps immigrants send money home in a safe, reliable and transparent manner. Its digitally‑native, cross‑border remittance app eliminates the long wait times, complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes. Building on its strong foundation, Remitly is expanding its suite of products to further its mission and transform financial services for immigrants all around the world.