Staff Fullstack Software Development Engineer

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

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.

About the Role:

Remitly is building the Remitly Global Card, a card and wallet that give customers a single, trusted place to hold, spend, and move their money, launching across multiple geographies. As a Staff Engineer on the Global Card team, you will set the technical direction for the product end to end: the screens customers see, the APIs behind them, and the services that issue cards, hold balances, and move money. You will take the lead on large, cross-team initiatives, serve as a senior technical voice across product and engineering, and hold the correctness and trust bar a regulated money product demands, all on a team that moves fast and builds with AI in the loop every day, where agentic coding tools are part of how we work, not a side experiment. You will report to the Engineering Director and work in a hybrid capacity from our Arlington, VA office.

You Will:

• 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.

You Have:

• 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.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $208,000 - 260,000 USD Annual. 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.

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Our Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off

• Health, dental, and vision + 401