Staff Fullstack Engineer – AI-Powered Global Card Platform

Remitly; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Health, dental, and vision + 401

Job summary

Remitly is building the Global Card— a card and wallet that consolidates money movements across geographies. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own the end-to-end technical direction from customer interfaces to card-issuing services, leading cross-team initiatives in a regulated environment and driving AI-native engineering as part of a fast-moving, trusted fintech platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering to shape the roadmap, review designs, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with experience building and operating systems end-to-end.
• 4+ years of hands-on React or React Native development experience, and experience building customer-facing experiences at product scale.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/React (or similar) plus a backend language (Node.js, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python).
• Experience leading team and cross-team design reviews, and designing for extensibility.
• Experience using AI throughout the software development lifecycle, from authoring agents to drafting technical specs and prototypes, and helping others apply it well.
• Experience with distributed, large-scale systems and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Bonus: Experience in FinTech, lending, or payments. industry where reliability, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the Global Card product, from customer-facing web and mobile surfaces to the services and integrations that issue cards, hold balances, and move money, taking the lead on large, cross-team initiatives.
• Design and build for scale, solving ambiguous and complex problems using full stack technologies (React, GraphQL, Java/Kotlin) in a regulated environment where reliability, security, and compliance shape engineering decisions.
• Partner with product, design, analytics, and engineering leaders to shape the Card roadmap, advise domain-level planning, and lead design reviews.
• Make AI-native engineering a durable practice on the team: set the bar, own the team's automation as a maintained portfolio, and extend those standards to teams you work closely with.
• Evolve engineering excellence standards (reliability, observability, security, quality) and resolve the long-standing problems that limit scale before they become bottlenecks.
• Raise the engineering bar by mentoring engineers at multiple levels through design and code reviews, and expanding team knowledge and skills.
• Stay hands-on across TypeScript, React/React Native, Java/Kotlin, and Go, and set the standard in code review.

Skills

React/React Native

TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

Go

Node.js

Python

AWS

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GraphQL

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Remitly is building the Global Card— a card and wallet that consolidates money movements across geographies. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own the end-to-end technical direction from customer interfaces to card-issuing services, leading cross-team initiatives in a regulated environment and driving AI-native engineering as part of a fast-moving, trusted fintech platform.

You will collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering to shape the roadmap, review designs, and mentor engineers.