Engineering Manager

About the Role

Remitly is building the Remitly Global Card, the first ever card that gives customers a single, trusted place to hold, spend, and move their money, launching across multiple geographies. As the Engineering Manager for the Card team, you will lead a team of engineers who own features end to end, the screens customers see, the APIs behind them, and the services that issue cards, hold balances, and move money. As the first engineering leader in our Arlington office, you’ll have the opportunity to set the engineering culture and future hires at Remitly. You'll build with AI in the loop every day, as we become AI native at Remitly, while holding the correctness and trust bar a regulated money product demands. You will report to the Director of Engineering and work in a hybrid capacity from our Arlington, VA office.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers to design, build, and ship the Card team’s consumer-facing experiences and backend services to power global benefits.
• Partner with product and design stakeholders to prioritize the roadmap and translate strategic ambitions into actionable OKRs.
• Hire and grow the engineering team, recruiting and onboarding experienced engineers.
• Be a role model for our cultural values and mentor engineers in technical skillset, autonomy, communication, and collaboration.
• Ensure engineering best practices, quality, security, and operational excellence across the team, including proactively identifying and resolving risk in a regulated environment.
• Champion safe, effective adoption of AI/agentic coding tools to boost team productivity and product velocity.
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning with Product, Design, Analytics, and partner engineering teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role, with a track record managing teams and delivering complex, full-stack / backend projects.
• Expertise in at least one backend or full-stack programming language (e.g., Go, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript), with the ability to adapt to new languages/frameworks as needed.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, performant software using cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS).
• Demonstrated aptitude and judgment for applying AI to developer productivity and, ideally, product features — including enabling safe AI tool adoption on the team.
• A track record coaching developers via mentoring, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Strong partnership skills with product and design stakeholders — communicating technical tradeoffs and applying product judgment to reach the best customer outcomes.
• Experience recruiting and growing engineering teams.

Pay

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $180,000-$225,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.

Benefits

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

Schedule

For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs.