Director, App Platform & Mobile Engineering

Remitly; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health & Vision

Parental leave

ESPP

Education benefits

Travel benefits

Job summary

Remitly in Seattle seeks a Director of Engineering to lead our App Platform team and shape the native mobile platform roadmap for iOS and Android, including development tooling and release infrastructure.

This hands-on role requires 8+ years of leadership, a track record building platforms engineers actually use, and experience hiring senior engineering managers and principal engineers. Join us to drive innovation and scale in a collaborative, high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical leadership experience
• History building and operating platforms and tooling that engineers actually use
• Experience hiring and developing senior engineering managers and principal engineers
• Track record leading native mobile platform organizations - iOS and Android - including release, build, and platform investments at scale
• Concrete examples of moving your team ahead of a major industry shift
• Comfort articulating technical opinions in front of executives and translating business strategy into technical bets
• Fluency with AI-native developer tooling and forward-looking ideas

Responsibilities

• Transform how Remitly builds, increasing velocity of engineering and product teams
• Improve inner- and outer-loop surfaces closest to daily product development
• Own the native mobile platform roadmap for iOS and Android including architecture and tooling
• Place thoughtful technical bets and run experiments
• Hire and develop senior managers and principal engineers
• Hold the operational, reliability, and quality bar for platforms
• Build a culture that treats rate of change as a core asset

Skills

Technical leadership

Team leadership

Mobile platform experience

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

Build systems

Release infrastructure

Developer tooling

Job description

Remitly in Seattle seeks a Director of Engineering to lead our App Platform team and shape the native mobile platform roadmap for iOS and Android, including development tooling and release infrastructure.

This hands-on role requires 8+ years of leadership, a track record building platforms engineers actually use, and experience hiring senior engineering managers and principal engineers. Join us to drive innovation and scale in a collaborative, high-impact environment.