Software Development Engineer II- Remittance Transaction Engine

Remitly, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, and vision + 401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Continued education opportunities

Job summary

Remitly, Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to design and build backend services that power the Remittance Transaction Engine. You will contribute to a modern API-first architecture and drive quality through testing, monitoring, and documentation.

You will work with product managers and partner teams to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions, leveraging AI tools to accelerate development while ensuring correctness and security.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development in production backend systems.
• Strong programming in Go, Kotlin, or similar languages with ability to learn new tech.
• Experience designing distributed systems on AWS and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs for transaction processing.
• Own features end-to-end from design to delivery with testing and documentation.
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance of Tier-1 systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams; participate in code reviews.

Skills

Go

Kotlin

Java

Python

Distributed systems

APIs

AI tools for coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Overview

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we have delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally by providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. We are looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation.

About the Role

The Remittance Transaction Engine (RTE) team owns the systems at the very heart of Remitly: the platform that accepts, orchestrates, and tracks every remittance our customers send. Every transaction, across millions of customers and 170+ countries, flows through RTE services. We provide the transaction gateway, processing, and search/read surfaces that customer-facing products and internal teams across Remitly build on. On systems where correctness directly affects customers' money, we prioritize reliability and operational excellence at scale. This is a pivotal moment for the team: we are engineering a future-ready Transaction Platform, focused on transitioning to a modern, API-first architecture that empowers self-service integration for diverse product offerings at scale and migrating the company off legacy access patterns to a clean, API-first architecture. As a Software Development Engineer II you will design and build backend services end‑to‑end, collaborate closely with product managers and partner engineering teams, and raise the bar for quality and operational excellence on systems where correctness directly affects customers' money. You will work in an AI‑forward engineering culture: we expect engineers to leverage AI tools effectively across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation to move faster, while owning the correctness of everything they ship. Verifying and fully understanding AI‑assisted output matters even more on systems that move money.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, high‑quality backend services and APIs at the core of Remitly's transaction processing platform.
• Contribute to the North Star architecture: build the new unified Transaction Platform Gateway and migrate consumers from legacy gateways and direct database access to well‑designed APIs.
• Own features end‑to‑end: translate requirements into technical designs, break work into tasks, estimate effort, and deliver with quality, including testing, monitoring, and documentation.
• Use AI‑assisted development to accelerate delivery, factoring it into your estimates and verifying AI‑generated output meets the team's bar for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and performance of Tier‑1 transaction systems, and participate in the team's on‑call rotation.
• Partner with product managers and engineers across Remitly to understand consumer needs and translate them into reliable technical solutions.
• Provide constructive feedback in code and design reviews, upholding a high bar for correctness and maintainability.
• Support the growth of peers through pairing and code reviews when the opportunity arises.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience building and maintaining production backend systems.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Kotlin, or similar languages (Java, Python, C++), with a demonstrated ability to learn new technologies.
• Proficiency in designing and building distributed systems on cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Experience optimizing how systems are deployed, tested, logged, and monitored; familiarity with CI/CD practices and infrastructure tooling.
• Ability to handle ambiguity in feature requirements and business expectations, and to independently drive features from design through delivery.
• Proven track record of writing clean, well‑tested, modular code and providing thorough code reviews.
• Strong collaboration skills; comfortable partnering with cross‑functional stakeholders to understand requirements and propose solutions.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate code construction, testing, and documentation in a production environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with payments, fintech, or other domains where data correctness and auditability are critical.
• Experience with large‑scale migrations of live, high‑throughput systems (service decomposition, database migrations, API‑first re‑platforming).

Compensation

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $144,000 – $180,000. 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.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401(k) plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education and travel benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Remitly, we are committed to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations. 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 discharged 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. Remitly is an E‑Verify Employer. Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.