Software Development Engineer II- Remittance Transaction Engine

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, high-quality backend services and APIs at the core of Remitly's transaction processing platform
• Contribute to our North Star architecture: building the new unified Transaction Platform Gateway and migrating 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

Requirements

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

Qualifications

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)

Skills

None listed

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 and travel benefits

Pay

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.

Schedule

Corporate team members have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates 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.