Staff Software Development Engineer

Remitly, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Remitly, Inc. is seeking a Senior or Staff Software Development Engineer to shape the Builder Experience across CI/CD, IDP, and developer tooling. You will design and operate platforms used by every engineering team and own reliability, security, and compliance across the stack.

You will mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure to meet strict regulatory requirements in a global fintech context. Hybrid in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2–3 years in Builder/tools or cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in Go, Python, or TypeScript and hands-on CI/CD, source control, or internal developer platforms.
• Experience leading design reviews and breaking large initiatives into workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the platforms powering Remitly's software delivery lifecycle (CI/CD, IDP, source control, release infrastructure).
• Own reliability for teams systems, including on-call ownership and root-cause analysis.
• Extend tooling and guardrails for all Builders (engineers, PMs, designers, data analysts) to ship safely in a regulated environment.
• Shape the use of AI in Remitly's development lifecycle and define standards for AI-assisted contributions.
• Lead team design reviews and plan workstreams, factoring AI into estimation and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance as the platform owner for security, privacy, and quality.
• Mentor engineers, participate in hiring, and raise the technical bar across Builder Platform work.
• Stay current on best practices and apply them to keep Builder Experience ahead of Remitly's tech stack.

Skills

Go

Python

TypeScript

CI/CD

Source control

Cloud infrastructure

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

About the Role:

The Builder Experience team owns the core of Remitly's software development lifecycle including source control, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Forge our internal developer platform, quality and compliance gates, and the AI-assisted tooling that both engineers and non-engineer Builders now use to ship changes. Our mission is to give every Builder at Remitly such as engineer, PM, designer, data analyst world‑class tools, workflows, and guardrails so they can build and ship with speed and confidence. As a Senior or Staff Software Development Engineer, you'll work on highly technical problems spanning our CI/CD platform, IDP - Internal Developer platform, GitHub platform administration and best practices, environments, and AI-assisted development and compliance standards systems used by every engineering team at Remitly, where an outage or a guardrail gap has company‑wide blast radius. Our business operates in a highly regulated financial technology domain, serving customers across the entire globe. Our business operates in a highly regulated financial technology domain serving customers across the globe, so you'll build solutions and AI-driven workflows that accelerate Builder productivity with strict requirements around security, privacy, and compliance. This position will report to the Engineering Manager of Builder Experience. This role will be hybrid based in Seattle, WA.

You Will:

• Design, build, and operate the platforms that power Remitly's software delivery lifecycle such as CI/CD, IDP - internal Developer platform, Source control and the build, test, release, and deployment infrastructure, engineers depend on every day.
• Own reliability for teams systems that every engineering team at Remitly depends on for shipping software including including health, on-call ownership and root-cause resolution when they break
• Extend our tooling and guardrails to support the full range of Builders at Remitly, not just engineers writing code including PMs, designers, and others building with AI agents, so they can ship safely within a regulated environment
• Shape how AI is used in Remitly's own development lifecycle: build AI-aware capabilities into our platform and help define standards for evaluating and validation AI-assisted and AI-generated contributions
• Lead team-level design reviews and technical planning for Team initiatives, breaking large initiatives into workstreams delivered in parallel, and factor AI into estimation and capacity planning
• Partner with Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance as the platform owner accountable for security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and quality across everything Builder Experience ships
• Mentor engineers on the team, contribute to hiring and interviewing, and help raise the technical bar for Builder platform work at Remitly
• Stay current on industry best practice in Builder platforms and AI-assisted engineering, and apply it to keep Builder Experience ahead of the size and complexity of Remitly's tech stack.

You Have:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years focused on Builder/Developer tools, build/release systems, or cloud infrastructure platforms rather than product-facing systems.
• Advanced expertise in at least one language used in our stack (Go, Python, or TypeScript), plus hands‑on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins), source‑control platform administration, or internal developer/deployment platforms
• Experience leading technical design reviews and breaking large, ambiguous company wide initiatives such as large scale migrations, multi region into workstreams other engineers can execute in parallel
• Experience partnering with Security, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to ship Builder infrastructure that meets strict regulatory requirements, ideally in a regulated industry
• A track record of driving Builder‑platform / Developer platform or infrastructure work that improved productivity, reliability, or velocity beyond your own team with measurable impact across other teams or the org, not just your codebase.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical trade‑offs to both engineering and non‑engineering stakeholders.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Remitly is a leading digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families in over 170 countries around the world. Remitly helps immigrants send money home in a safe, reliable and transparent manner. Its digitally‑native, cross‑border remittance app eliminates the long wait times, complexities and fees typical of traditional remittance processes. Building on its strong foundation, Remitly is expanding its suite of products to further its mission and transform financial services for immigrants all around the world.