Senior Data Engineer

Remitly; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan

Paid parental, medical, military andF

Mental Health & Family Forming Benefi

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learning & development benefits

Job summary

Remitly in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Global Card team. You will own the data foundation, build pipelines, and design data contracts that power card, credit, and payments analytics.

Collaborate with product, analytics, and data science to translate business needs into scalable data models, dashboards, and reliable data products, while mentoring engineers and upholding data quality and security standards.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert SQL and data modeling skills for scalable analytics.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines with orchestration, incremental batch loads, and streaming.

Responsibilities

• Own the data foundation, schemas, pipelines, and data marts for Remitly Global Card.
• Define architecture and roadmap for data systems to scale.
• Ensure data quality with monitoring, tests, and alerts across marts and features.
• Turn business needs into reusable data contracts and schemas with lineage.
• Raise engineering bar with data modeling, CI/CD, access control, and sensitive data handling.
• Collaborate across stack and with platform teams to reuse data infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and participate in interviews.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Large-scale data pipelines

Python

Scala

Java

Go

Data contracts

AI tooling in dev

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

5+ years experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Spark

Trino

EMR

AWS

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.

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. Remitly is building the Remitly Global Card: a card, wallet, and built-in credit line that give customers a single, trusted place to hold, spend, borrow, and move their money, launching across multiple geographies. As a Senior Data Engineer on the Global Card team, you will own the engineering of the team's data foundation end to end: the pipelines that bring in card, credit, payments, and product data; the schemas and data marts that analysts and data scientists rely on; and the checks that keep that data accurate and on time. You will lead the technical direction for this space: partnering with product, analytics, and data science on what to build, anticipating problems early, and choosing right-sized designs that scale with the business. Our team works across the stack to get the job done, so you will also contribute to the backend services that power our products as the need arises. We move fast, use agentic coding tools every day, and hold a high bar for excellence. You will report to the Engineering Manager and work from our Arlington, VA office on a hybrid schedule.

You Will

• Own the data foundation: Design, build, and operate the schemas, pipelines, and data marts behind Remitly Global Card across card, credit, and payments, including the feature pipelines that supply our credit and fraud models. Partner with data scientists on feature definitions and validation.
• Lead technical direction: Define the architecture and roadmap for our data systems, anticipate where the business is headed, and choose designs that fit the problem and stay fast, reliable, and cost-efficient as we scale.
• Build trust in our data: Put data quality and monitoring in place across our marts and model features: testable freshness and reliability targets; completeness, consistency, and business-rule checks; automated tests for pipeline changes; and alerts with clear owners. Diagnose failures, manage safe backfills and recovery, and validate data against source records.
• Turn business needs into data products: Partner with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to shape requirements and turn them into reusable schemas and data contracts, well-modeled tables, shared metric definitions, and documentation, including lineage, so that people and AI tools can run their own queries and build their own dashboards.
• Raise the engineering bar: Set standards for data modeling, design and code review, CI/CD, access control, and sensitive data handling, including retention and deletion. Review mart changes from other contributors, and use agentic coding tools to move faster while validating generated code and protecting sensitive data.
• Work across the stack: Build and improve the backend services that power our products as the need arises, and work with platform teams to reuse and extend shared data infrastructure, tooling, and standards.
• Mentor and grow the team: Guide engineers and analysts through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing. Represent Remitly's cultural values and technical competencies in interviews.

You Have

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert SQL and strong data modeling skills, including dimensional modeling, schema evolution, and designing tables that analysts and data scientists can use at scale.
• Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines, including orchestration, incremental batch loads, and streaming, using distributed processing or query engines (e.g., Spark, Trino, EMR) on cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS), with data quality checks, testing, and monitoring built in.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for data and backend work (e.g., Python, Scala, Java, Go), and experience building and operating backend services.
• Experience leading projects at the team level, including setting technical direction, breaking work into parallel workstreams, estimating timelines, and mentoring other engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with product, analytics, and data science stakeholders to turn ambiguous business needs into clear technical plans and drive decisions to resolution.
• Experience using AI tools throughout your development workflow, with sound judgment about reviewing and testing generated code and protecting sensitive data.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Bonus: Experience with financial data in fintech, lending, or payments, where accuracy, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180,000-$225,000. 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)
• Learning & development 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.