Senior SDE — High-Value Send Experience (Hybrid)

Careers at Remitly Nicaragua; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health, dental, and vision + 401k with

Parental, medical, military and family

Mental Health & Family Forming

ESPP

Continuing education and travel

Job summary

Remitly is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the High Value Send Experience team, building the systems used by customers sending large transfers across borders. The role spans web, mobile, and backend work, with collaboration across identity, trust, pricing, and product teams to earn customer trust on high-stakes transfers.

The candidate will mentor peers, shape architecture, and deliver scalable, reliable solutions while aligning with regulatory and security standards for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, end-to-end.
• Experience building customer-facing experiences at product scale with TypeScript, React, and native mobile development (iOS/Android, React Native).
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python, with production-quality code.
• Use AI tools in your own software development workflow — including Claude Code.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building distributed, large-scale systems with service-oriented or microservices architecture.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including familiarity with managed services.

Responsibilities

• Champion the customer experience by using customer signal, product instincts, and data to inform technical decisions — translating what high value senders need into the systems that serve them.
• Lead technical design and architecture for complex systems that power the High Value Send experience — breaking down ambiguous, greenfield problems into clear technical strategies and measurable outcomes.
• Ship reliable, observable, and scalable systems across web, mobile, and backend services that meet strict availability and latency SLOs for the customer flows where trust matters most.
• Operate AI-natively because it's how one person outships a team of ten.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, and partner engineering teams to translate goals into scalable technical solutions for a diverse global customer base.
• Strengthen engineering culture by mentoring teammates, leading technical discussions, providing meaningful code review feedback, and advocating for best practices in coding, testing, and system design as we grow this team.

Skills

TypeScript

React

React Native

iOS/Android

Distributed systems

Microservices

Claude Code

AWS

GCP

Azure

Java

Kotlin

Go

Python

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Go

Python

React

React Native

AWS

GCP

Azure

Claude Code

Distributed systems

Microservices

Job description

Remitly is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the High Value Send Experience team, building the systems used by customers sending large transfers across borders. The role spans web, mobile, and backend work, with collaboration across identity, trust, pricing, and product teams to earn customer trust on high-stakes transfers.

The candidate will mentor peers, shape architecture, and deliver scalable, reliable solutions while aligning with regulatory and security standards for